Having to mark rocks on official maps, keeping records of exactly which part of an open hillside a cow is standing on, concerns over delayed farm payments from the Rural Payments Agency and overly prescriptive bovine TB rules that do not reflect the practical realities of uplands farming were just some of the issues Dartmoor farmers and NFU members raised in a meeting with Central Devon MP Mel Stride.

READ THE FULL STORY IN FRIDAY’S PAPER, 28TH OCTOBER, 2016.

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