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Finance free farming: Taking the route of sanity over vanity

When Neil Green started contracting in 1992, the route to buying his first tractor was, like many others, through finance. More recently, the Derbyshire livestock farmer and contractor has adopted a finance-free farming approach to tractor and machinery ownership.

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Derbyshire livestock farmer and contractor Neil Green
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Derbyshire livestock farmer and contractor Neil Green

Derbyshire livestock farmer and contractor Neil Green is one who is bucking the trend when it comes to operating a fleet of tractors and machinery. That has because his tractors are a throw-back to a simpler...

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