It is an exciting, if busy, time for Hilary Evans. Thanks to some unusually ideal weather, the corn harvest arrived earlier than usual on his farm in Aberystwyth, Wales, where the 51-year-old oversees 150 acres of crops, 300 sheep, and 60 heads of cattle. This coincided with the start of another eagerly awaited event some 6,000 miles away, one whose personal import Evans describes like this: “It’s a really interesting hobby. Well, I suppose it’s almost a job now.”
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