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Dairy Talk: Robert Reed - "We haven't been this long bTB-free for nearly 15 years"

Farming 405 hectares (1,000 acres), a mix of tenanted and owned land at Gatcombe Farm, near Seaton, Devon, Robert Reed and his family milk 350 all-year-round calving Holstein cows via five robots and are achieving average yields of 12,000 litres

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Robert Reed.

Doesn't time go fast? It only seems like a month ago I wrote last and it's now nearly halfway through the year. With two cuts in the pit, both very good quality, we are waiting for a break in the...

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