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In your field: Alan Carter: "I arrived in less than 10 minutes from leaving the milking parlour, so had the genuine farmer look, and possibly smell"

Alan Carter farms in partnership with his parents, Paul and Christine, on a 162 hectare (400-acre), 400-cow dairy unit at Constantine, Cornwall, with 130 milking cows, supplying Saputo. Alan, also a Parish Councillor, and his wife Sarah, have two children, Ross and Dana

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In your field: Alan Carter: "I arrived in less than 10 minutes from leaving the milking parlour, so had the genuine farmer look, and possibly smell"

The winter routine is in full swing, with all the youngstock back home and in their sheds for the next few months. The silage clamp was opened on Bonfire Night and the cows came in a couple of days...

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