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The RSPB bought Hope Farm ten years ago. Our aim was to manage a bog-standard arable farm (in Cambridgeshire) as a commercial farm but at the same time to increase its bird numbers. And it has worked! I'm glad it has worked because it felt as though...

The harvest was completed at Hope Farm a week ago. It's a tricky business getting the timing right. We waited for a dry spell so that we could harvest dry grain and not have to spend money on drying it post-harvest. As you can imagine this is a gamble...

The second Ashes test came to a glorious conclusion, unhampered by rain, but the oilseed rape harvest at Hope Farm has started and stopped.

Today was an Open Day at the RSPB's arable farm near Cambridge - for founding members of, and donors to, the project. We bought Hope Farm almost 10 years ago and our aim was to increase wildlife there, particularly those farmland birds whose populations...