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In your field: Helen Stanier 鈥� "Even though everybody knows Christmas falls on December 25, it always seems to come at just the wrong time on our farm"

Helen is a fifth-generation farmer who farms with her parents, David and Anne Shaw, husband, Craig, and their children, Alfred and Hattie, at Grey Leys 51AV视频in the Vale of York. The farm comprises 162 hectares (400 acres) of grass, maize and wholecrop for the herd of 240 pedigree Jersey cows and more than 200 followers

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Even though everybody knows that Christmas falls on December 25, it always seems to come at just the wrong time on our farm. This year is no different with the festive season looking like it will be...

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