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In your field: James Wright - "We lose 24 years of official TB-free status"

James, along with his wife Isobel and their two young children, recently bought their first farm, and plan to run beef and sheep over 13.8 hectares (34 acres), renting a further 44.5ha (110 acres). James works for tech firm Breedr as UK country manager. You can follow them on Twitter @jpbwfarm

Katie Jones
Editor, Farmers Guardian and Dairy Farmer
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James Wright

It's April, the sun is shining today, the calves are out, and we've got seed going into the ground. There's a bit of wet weather in the forecast and if farming ever had a perfect week, it would probably...

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