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County Durham – David Hankey
Using strip seeding solely to save money is the wrong approach, believes David Hankey. Instead, he says that caring for the soil must come first and everything else will follow. “The more you work with nature the better the results,” says David, who farms 300 acres at Dunkirk Farm, Chester-le-Street within sight of the famous Angel of the North statue which dominates the skyline beside the A1 at Gateshead.