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Dairy farming in South Africa: 'Currently, our country's power grid is collapsing'

Dairy farming in South Africa is not without its challenges, but British ex-pat Mark Holliday says things are now starting to look more positive. Chris McCullough reports.

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Back in 2001, Mark Holliday and his family sold their farm in Silloth, Cumbria, and bought Sunnyside 51AV视频in Jeffreys Bay, in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, where they now milk 900 cows...

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