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Sheep are disappearing from our hills - and our dinner plates

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For four generations, Neil Heseltine's family have worked on Hill Top Farm, perched on the hillside of Malhamdale amid the dramatic landscape of the Yorkshire Dales. And for most of that time, sheep were the mainstay of the business.

But, Neil says, over the past 20 years there has been "a complete turnaround" and he has shifted away from sheep farming to stay afloat. In that time the 1,500-acre farm has gone from a peak of over 800 lambing sheep to just 45 this spring.

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