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Pulses to stay in many rotations in 2023

208,000 hectares of beans were grown in 2022.

Cedric Porter
Business Reporter
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Pulses to stay in many rotations in 2023

208,000 hectares of beans were grown in 2022. Farmers look set to plant a similar area of pulses for the 2023 harvest, which was one of the largest of the last decade. Defra figures estimate that...

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