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Roger Evans: "That cheque, that arrived in December, used to bring with it a lot of comfort"

The big story since I last wrote has to be the decline in the number of dairy farmers. Just to put it into some sort of perspective, when we started First Milk I think we had 3,500 members

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Roger Evans: "That cheque, that arrived in December, used to bring with it a lot of comfort"

Politicians might pay lip service to ‘food security' but until there are empty shelves in the supermarkets, lip service is all we will get. There was a letter in the farming press urging dairy farmers...

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