AgriWebb 2025-09-28T15:06:36Z
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Wind screamed like a banshee across the Yorkshire Dales that October morning, driving icy needles of rain sideways into the barn. I’d just wrestled a ewe through a difficult lambing, her exhausted bleats drowned by the storm’s fury. My hands, numb and clumsy, fumbled for the battered notebook tucked in my wax jacket pocket – the one holding vaccination dates, breeding cycles, pasture rotations. A gust tore the door wide; rain lashed in, a cold slap. The notebook flew from my grasp, landing in a
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That godforsaken Tuesday started with the horizon swallowing itself in a swirling brown fury. My fingers trembled not from cold but from raw panic as fifty pages of breeding records took flight like terrified sparrows. For three hours I crawled through thistles on hands and knees, retrieving pulp that once held generations of genetic history. The irony tasted like grit between my teeth - I'd spent decades perfecting bloodlines only to have Arizona's breath scatter them across scrubland. That nig