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In your field: Alan Carter 鈥� "You can plan as much as you want, but the weather has the biggest effect on the farming year"

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 hope everyone reading this had an enjoyable Christmas and managed to find some time to relax and celebrate in between the usual workload. December saw us having the first Hereford calves born...

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