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Dairy Talk - Ifan Roberts: "Since this time I have now leased cows to five different dairy businesses"

Having figured out at a relatively young age that one day I wanted to have a dairy farm of my own I knew that with very little capital to start off with this was going to be a real challenge

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Dairy Talk - Ifan Roberts: "Since this time I have now leased cows to five different dairy businesses"

Luckily at 19 through working for a joint venture between my father and a local farmer I learned about cow leasing. In this agreement my father was renumerated with a 10% return on capital plus a depreciation...

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