OCT/NOV 201 6 • ISSU E 48
CONTENTS
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16 FIRST YEAR CELEBRATIONS FOR
POWER CLEANING SYSTEMS
The first year in any new business can be
fraught with uncertainties but Malton-based
Power Cleaning Systems recently passed its
first anniversary in an energetic, positive and
optimistic mood.
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24 GRAIN TO DRY OR BEEF TO FINISH?
Chris Berry meets Doug Dear at Osgodby
Grange where business covers grain draying
& storage, contracting, beef contracting and
his own arable cropping.
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FROM FIELD TO FISH AND CHIP SHOP!
Chris Berry talks potatoes and other crops with Andrew Smales at
Burton Pidsea and Aldbrough (and managed to tuck into his favourite
fish and chips too!)
38 HOW GRAIN BECAME
KING AT FORTSHOT
Chris Berry talks with Peter Trickett: West
Riding NFU County Chairman, a man used
to making big decisions about his farming
future.
48 WHERE SHEEP REIGN SUPREME
Chris Berry talks with Jim and Liz Pedley at
“wild and woolly” Yore House.
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58 KEEPING THE FAITH – IN
CALVES AND COWS
Chris Berry talks with Shaun Sowray at
Bishop Thornton and finds a real family
business with stories to tell.
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72 SUCCESS IS A FAMILY THING
Success is very much a family thing at
Thornton Breakers near Bradford, as Ian
Wilkinson discovered when he paid them a
visit.
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43 SHEEP DIP CONTROVERSY » 46 LEIGH SMITH » 54 DODSWORTH FARM » 68 FARM SECURITY » 71 MACHINERY
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