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In your field: Alan Carter 鈥� "After six months of being bovine TB-free, we are back under restrictions on-farm"

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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After six months of being bovine TB-free, we are back under restrictions. The whole herd test was held at the end of March, with a couple of reactors in the cows. No visible lesions were found on the...

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