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Farming Matters – Alastair Leake: "Resilience to climate change needs to come in many forms"

This week's opinion from throughout the world of agriculture: Alistair Leake, director of policy at the Allerton Project

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Who would have thought when we put our new experimental drainage system into a poorly drained arable field here at the Allerton Project, it would rain just about every day since? And who would have thought...

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