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In your field - Emma Robinson: "He had been a farmer all his life and loved it and was still driving the combine into his late 80s"

Emma and her family farm in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, milking 100 pedigree Holsteins and selling raw milk from the farmgate. They also run 300 North Country Mules. Emma is Monmouthshire NFU chair and volunteers with the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution

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In your field - Emma Robinson: "He had been a farmer all his life and loved it and was still driving the combine into his late 80s"

My father-in-law passed away peacefully last month, aged 94 years. He had been a farmer all his life and loved it. He was still driving the combine into his late 80s. With two sons coming home from...

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