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Dairy Talk - Ifan Roberts: "A wet but positive start to spring calving"

After a steady start to calving at Houghton Lodge in early February we were fully back on track by the beginning of March and had delivered over 630 calvings in four weeks equating to 59% of the expected 1,070 calvings due by the beginning of May

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However, we were slightly behind our target grazed area by this time at 20% of the platform. This was due to the extremely wet conditions meaning we were only able to snatch a couple of hours of grazing...

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