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Letters: "New QMS assurance standards are the most practical and farmer-focused in decades"

This week from Farmers Guardian readers: Nial Jeffrey, chair of the Quality Meat Scotland Standards Setting Body and cattle and sheep farmer, discusses the latest updates to the QMS Cattle and Sheep Assurance Standards

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Letters: "New QMS assurance standards are the most practical and farmer-focused in decades"

As a farmer, I know first-hand the pressures and complexities we face in today's red meat industry – balancing food production, sustainability, profitability and animal welfare, while under increasing...

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