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In your field: Alan Carter 鈥� "I was scared. I have never seen weather like it and having that close a call with a flying roof does make you think about your life"

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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The headline from my last column was 鈥業t would be wonderful if this meteorological year passed quietly'. The way that the year has started has been the opposite of quiet. It feels like most of the...

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