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In your field: Emma Robinson – "My granddaughter loves all things farming – it really is a very special upbringing on a farm"

Emma and her family farm in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, milking 100 pedigree Holsteins and selling raw milk from the farmgate. They also run 300 North Country Mules. Emma is Monmouthshire NFU chair and volunteers with the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution

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Emma Robinson

As I type this column, the rain keeps on falling. After such a dry summer last year, Mother Nature is catching up. We have brought in a group of ewes already and Robert and Harvey are doing some shed...

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