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Young Farmer Focus - Harry Suckling: "We are united in the hope that APR will be reversed"

Suffolk potato grower Harry Suckling writes about his family farm and his hopes to see Chancellor Rachel Reeves' proposed taxation reforms on UK agriculture reversed

Chris Brayford
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Harry Suckling, 23, is a potato grower from Holbrook in Suffolk.
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Harry Suckling, 23, is a potato grower from Holbrook in Suffolk.

I am the fifth generation to farm land on the Shotley Peninsula. My family have been running our farm business since 1939. Potatoes Our main crop is potatoes grown for the chipping market, which...

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