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Young Farmer Focus - Lara Dicesare: "When you are doing what you love, you thrive"

Congleton farmer Lara Dicesare is this year's Dairy Queen and chair of Macclesfield YFC, showing that when you really love something, you will excel in it

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One day when I was 12, I randomly said I wanted to go milk cows after school. We had a family friend that farmed in the local village who took me on, taught me the basics on a Shorthorn dairy farm. I didn't...

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