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Keeper of the month

Adam Steed is the winner of the 2019-2020 GWCT East Anglian Grey Partridge award. He keepers a 3,000-acre wild bird shoot in mid Suffolk set within a successful arable farm owned by the Black family (Reap the wild harvest, 30 January 2019).

I asked him what is behind his success. “I was born a farm lad,” he replied. “My father is the farm manager here and

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