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Tue 09 Sep 2008Bad summer for farmers
IT HAS been a miserable summer for most people, but farmers and their enterprises have been particularly badly affected. Sodden land and persistent rain have kept machinery and animals out of fields and have seriously affected the operations of tillage farming and animal husbandry.
Even at this late stage, a spell of fine, dry weather would make all the difference between a poor financial year and a really bad one.
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