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DAIRY SPECIAL: Making a success of contract farming across two units

Starting out as a herdsman just over a decade ago, Jimmy Pritt is now milking almost 1,000 cows across two very different Leicestershire units on a contract farming arrangement

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DAIRY SPECIAL: Making a success of contract farming across two units

In 2014 Jimmy Pritt signed a contract farming agreement at Whetstone Pastures Dairy, near Leicester and the holding currently supports a flying herd of 380 spring calving Holstein Friesians and Jerseys,...

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