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Dairy Talk - Claire Eastham: "Some of us are trying to function and farm in the midst of a drought"

Claire Eastham farms with her husband Martyn in Dorset, where they milk 120-spring calving cows. After gaining knowledge and experience working for other businesses, the couple started their own dairy farming journey in 2015 by taking on a share farming agreement before progressing to their current county council farm

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Right now, we're not just dealing with the reopening of the Capital Grant, but we're also in the middle of a full-blown policy pile-on. The Farming Equipment and Technology Fund (FETF), Capital Grant,...

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