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Dairy Talk - Gemma Smale-Rowland: "The winter routine is dragging now"

Let's start with the record-breaking news, although I'm not sure that knowing that February had the highest rainfall in 250 years is the sort of record we want to be hearing about

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Dairy Talk - Gemma Smale-Rowland: "The winter routine is dragging now"

As I travel around the country and speak to many farmers, everyone is now starting to struggle with the extreme volume of rain we have had, and even those usually ‘dry' farms are now taking a hit I...

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