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In your field: Alan Carter - "October has been incredibly kind here in Cornwall"

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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I am going to start by saying something that I haven't been able to say for the two-and-a-half years I have been fortunate enough to write for Farmers Guardian – and many years before that – and that is...

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