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Roger Evans: "I reckon farming is in for a hard time. The cost of food is too close to inflation"

This month, Roger Evans discusses min-till, visits from the Environment Agency and farmers becoming ‘low-hanging fruit'

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Roger Evans.

I've always said that it is money that makes a real difference. The latest ‘fashion' in cereal growing is min-till. This, simplistically, is the drilling of a new crop into stubble of the old one. As...

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