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Farm Post: RSPB in plea to growers.
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Farmers are being urged by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds not to cut back or remove hedges and field margins.
Agriculture Secretary Nick Brown has announced the EU may drop its plans to exclude field margins from subsidy payments.
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