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Letters: "We ignore lessons from farming's history at our peril"

This week from Farmers Guardian readers: Lawrence Jones, Devon, discusses how many principles of modern regenerative farming have their roots in historical agricultural practices, which are now being revived and adapted to contemporary systems

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Letters: "We ignore lessons from farming's history at our peril"

Sylvia McHardy was certainly right to point out that regenerative farming is nothing new in her letter in Farmers Guardian's September 12 issue. The basic principle was pioneered 300 years ago by Turnip...

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