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From the editor: "Winter crops have been waterlogged, growers are struggling to get anywhere near spring fieldwork and livestock farmers are already seeing hay and straw prices climb"

This week from Íæż½ã½ã editor Olivia Midgley (March 22)

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From the editor: "Winter crops have been waterlogged, growers are struggling to get anywhere near spring fieldwork and livestock farmers are already seeing hay and straw prices climb"

With fields as sodden as they are, a column about water might not be high on your reading list, but ironically it is World Water Day (March 22), so bear with me. On a day in which the United Nations...

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