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Suckler cow farmer aims to 'work smarter, not harder' through monitor farm programme

With multiple business challenges facing his farming business, from Brexit to changes in support and land availability, Roxburghshire farmer Robert Wilson was keen to take advantage of the monitor farms programme

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Mr Wilson's involvement in the monitor farm programme follows on from his successful involvement in a previous agritourism monitor farm project, which he says was really beneficial due to the ability to...

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