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From the editor: A line in the sand 鈥� dairy producer numbers fall below 7,000

This week from the Farmers Guardian editor Katie Jones

Katie Jones
Editor, Farmers Guardian and Dairy Farmer
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From the editor: A line in the sand 鈥� dairy producer numbers fall below 7,000

How low can it go? That is the big question raised by the latest AHDB survey of major milk buyers, which shows that average milk volumes per farm are up, yet the milking herd has shrunk and, for the first...

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