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Key considerations when looking to diversify into milk vending

With continued milk price volatility resulting in more farmers looking for ways to safeguard their future, Sarah Alderton looks at milk vending as an option for farmers to get more for their milk

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Since opening his milk vending machine eight months ago, George Fabi says the equipment has almost paid for itself.
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Since opening his milk vending machine eight months ago, George Fabi says the equipment has almost paid for itself.

Milk sold through on-farm vending machines can fetch more than £1.20 per litre, and while that might sound like an attractive proposition at a time when farmers are seeing their milk prices being slashed,...

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