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Dairy Talk - Ifan Roberts: "As much as it is painful to see such turbulence, there is nothing that quite focuses one's mind on-farm than when times are lean"

Ifan Roberts is a new entrant who has established a contract farming agreement milking 500 block calving cows in Cheshire, and is aiming to improve the land farmed, encourage others to participate in the industry and deliver attractive returns to his stakeholders

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Ifan Roberts.

November was a busy time for us at Brookhouse Farm. As we bring our first full year here to a close, we had a few more infrastructure projects to complete as we house our cows. This included adding...

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