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Letters: "Looking back, we've learned a lot in half a century of beef breeding"

This week from Farmers Guardian readers: Philip Morgan, Powys, reflects on the transformation of UK beef breeding over the past 50 years

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Letters: "Looking back, we've learned a lot in half a century of beef breeding"

Looking back to the good days pre-joining the Common Market in 1974, we bred pedigree Hereford cattle. A consignment of 10-12 breeders would be chosen by fieldsmen from different farms to be weight recorded...

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