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Letters: "Good, wholesome food, locally produced, has to be encouraged"

Farmers Guardian reader John Hart emailed in to add his recollections of the decline in dairy production on the Isle of Wight

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Letters: "Good, wholesome food, locally produced, has to be encouraged"

To follow on with the 'decline in dairy' theme raised by Richard Bruce in the letters page of Farmers Guardian, I would like to add the following: I came to the Isle of Wight in 1970 (2 years later...

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