In your field: Helen Stanier - 'At this point they decided that their midnight snacking wasn't over'

Helen is a fifth-generation farmer who farms with her parents, David and Anne Shaw, husband, Craig, and their children, Alfred and Hattie, at Grey Leys Farm in the Vale of York. The farm comprises 162 hectares (400 acres) of grass, maize and wholecrop for the herd of 240 pedigree Jersey cows and more than 200 followers

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In your field: Helen Stanier - 'At this point they decided that their midnight snacking wasn't over'

When Craig opened the door to a police officer in the middle of the night last week, he knew it could only mean one thing. The heifers were out. Our yearling heifers graze a large area of meadowland...

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