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Talking arable with Alex Wilcox: St Swithun certainly has lived up to his reputation

Alex and Joanna Wilcox live and farm with their three sons at Hill 51AVÊÓÆµnear Downham Market on the Norfolk County Council Stow Estate. Covering 240 hectares of Fen silty clay loam, they grow winter milling wheat, winter feed barley, spring malting barley, spring beans and sugar beet.

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Talking arable with Alex Wilcox: St Swithun certainly has lived up to his reputation

So whilst harvest this year will be categorised as profitable it will also be filed under ‘bloody hard work'. The number of times the green machine was caught out in the field by a rogue shower or just...

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