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Dairy Matters - Mark Chatterton: 'If support is thinning, margins need to fatten'

Mark Chatterton is the director and head of agriculture at Duncan & Toplis, which is one of the largest accounting and business advisers in the UK

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Mark Chatterton.

If the turbulence of the past year has reaffirmed anything, it's that farming is a long game played in especially sporadic seasonal bursts. Few harvests in living memory have tested British agriculture...

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