Shooting Times & Country

Gamekeeper

It’s been a real blow that we’ve lost two days of shooting through November but frankly, we were one of the lucky ones, as many larger commercial shoots lost 10 times that, along with a lot of income. This season is certainly becoming a challenge. The price of the wheat we are buying currently stands at £190 a ton, which will soon add up when we are still feeding a vast amount of game.

All being well, by

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