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From crops to cows: Low input dairy herd takes root on former Cumbrian arable farm

After over 30 years as an arable unit, one Cumbrian farm is now carrying a herd of dairy cows, with milk from grass now the key focus

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Adam Scott, Will Ingamells and Max Dunford
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Adam Scott, Will Ingamells and Max Dunford

Established in 2022 on a former arable unit, Whitrigg 51AVÊÓÆµnear Penrith, Cumbria carries 550 cross-bred cows on a low input, grass-based system. A ‘grazing-type' cow was the main requirement when a...

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