Farming matters: Rona Amiss - 'The future could be bright for mixed family farms'

Resilience seems a popular word recently. Looking it up on Google tells me it means ‘the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness’. I quite like that and to me it sums up farming.

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Farming matters: Rona Amiss - 'The future could be bright for mixed family farms'

Resilience seems a popular word recently. Looking it up on Google tells me it means ‘the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness'. I quite like that and to me it sums up farming. Business...

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