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Ian Davis: 'Make soil your number one focus'

Ian Davis, a beef farmer from Hertfordshire, points out soil is the key to making a regenerative approach work.

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Ian Davis: 'Make soil your number one focus'

Ian Davis, a beef farmer from Hertfordshire, points out soil is the key to making a regenerative approach work. Ian Davis, from Hertfordshire, described himself as a thoroughly conventional farmer for...

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