As AG Street said, learning to run a business 'on the smell of an oily rag' still rings true

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Thank you Farmers Weekly, for marking the 50th anniversary of AG Street's passing (Farmlife, 23 September).For readers who are not familiar, he was a Wiltshire tenant farmer who wrote about farming for decades, including in the 1930s and 1940s.He lived and farmed through the last period that UK farming was unsubsidised and described the effects of unrestricted world competition and the devastating effect it had on UK farmers in his books and magazine articles.