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In your field: Alan Carter - "All you need for a summer of checking stock with your children and a dog is: a bag of electric fence wire, CDs (Johnny Cash and ABBA), ball valve arms, tennis balls and car seats"

Alan Carter farms in partnership with his parents, Paul and Christine, on a 162 hectare (400-acre), 400-cow dairy unit at Constantine, Cornwall, with 130 milking cows, supplying Saputo. Alan, also a parish councillor, and his wife Sarah, have two children, Ross and Dana

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In your field: Alan Carter - "All you need for a summer of checking stock with your children and a dog is: a bag of electric fence wire, CDs (Johnny Cash and ABBA), ball valve arms, tennis balls and car seats"

February 10 was a date that has been in my mind for a few months as it was the day that the Hereford X stores were being sold. We had 32 to send to the bovine TB market at Hallworthy. The sale started...

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