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In your field - James Wright: "You can tell the beef price is strong because I've concreted the scrape passage"

James and Isobel, with their two young children, recently bought their first farm, and plan to run beef and sheep over 13.8 hectares (34 acres), renting a further 44.5ha (110 acres). James works for tech firm Breedr as a product manager. You can follow them on Twitter @jpbwfarm.

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In your field - James Wright: "You can tell the beef price is strong because I've concreted the scrape passage"

We were lucky enough to pick up a couple of cows from Dartmoor. Leyland Branfield, originally from Exmoor and now farming the other end of Devon, was selling a few, and we came home with two pairs of cows...

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