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Young couple build up successful suckler enterprise

Few farmers can keep beef cows as economically as Duncan and Claire Morrison at Meikle Maldron, an upland farm near Torphins in Aberdeenshire. Ewan Pate reports.

Ewan Pate
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Young couple build up successful suckler enterprise

Few farmers can keep beef cows as economically as Duncan and Claire Morrison at Meikle Maldron, an upland farm near Torphins in Aberdeenshire. Ewan Pate reports. During the last seven years that Duncan...

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