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Dairy Matters - Liz Haines: "I feel like diversity is now firmly on the farming map"

Dairy farmer Liz Haines, discusses her first visit to the Oxford Farming Conference, which this year saw speakers addressing the theme of diversity

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Dairy Matters - Liz Haines: "I feel like diversity is now firmly on the farming map"

In early January I returned to the Examination Schools in Oxford for the first time since sitting my finals 15 years ago. It was a surreal experience to be sat in the beautiful halls again, surrounded...

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