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In your field - Roger Nicholson: "Farmers are not the enemy 鈥� they are the people who feed the nation"

Roger Nicholson farms with his family at the heavily diversified Cannon Hall Farm, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, which has sparked various Channel 5 series including Springtime on the Farm. Roger, 81, farms with his sons Richard, Robert and David and says he has no plans to retire just yet

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Well, that Budget was another crushing disappointment and our hopes for some Christmas cheer fell on stony ground. With the passing of the years comes an acceptance about the things that we can and...

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