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14 YAMS 2016 – THE VOTES ARE
IN FOR A FANTASTIC SHOW!
Even the weather was on good form on 3
February for the third YAMS event, which
this year had almost 200 stands and in
the region of 10,000 visitors – around 50
percent up on 2015.
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20 BUZZING START TO 2016
AT RFS OPEN DAY
The New Year kicked off with a buzz on 6
& 7 January with the Ripon Farm Services
Annual Open Day. Ian Wilkinson braved the
weather to join the crowds.
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TEAMWORK & TRUST WORK WELL FOR FARMSTAR
Always a key event in the North’s farming calendar is the Annual Open
Day at FARMSTAR which this year took place on 15 January at their main
depot in Marr, near Doncaster. Ian Wilkinson was there.
56 SHEEP SHINING BRIGHT
AT BEACON FARM
Chris Berry met winner Paul Cass of Beacon
Farm, Scalby and his fiancée, Cath at
the York Auction Centre’s annual awards
following the Christmas Primestock Shows
& Sales.
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42 BEEF & BEES MEAN SWEET
SUCCESS AT BAYVIEW!
Beef and bees are an unusual farm
diversification - but one that keep things
really buzzing for father and son partnership,
Dennis and David Hanson of Bayview Farm,
Flixton, near Scarborough where you could
save there is always a hive of activity…
62 WHERE MACHINERY COMES FIRST
Chris Berry meets the Townend family
of Scapegoat Hill near Huddersfield, a
community built on the wool trade and
weaving, but for the Townend family it is all
about machinery.
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