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In your field: Emma Robinson 鈥� "It has been very inspiring to offer two students experience on-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 chair of RABI Monmouthshire and volunteers with the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution

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We are about halfway through lambing. It is going well, but they are lambing at a slower pace this year, probably linked to the wet weather we had in November. I have been using lamb macs as we had four...

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