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Dairy special: Organic Pembrokeshire dairy farm secures future

Significant investment in a greenfield site, together with membership of an internationally renowned organic dairy co-operative, is key to securing the farming future for a historic West Wales estate

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Owen Lort-Phillips
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Owen Lort-Phillips

A new-build complete with a robotic milking, scraping and feeding system, was installed five years ago by the Lort-Phillips family at Lawrenny 51AVÊÓÆµin south Pembrokeshire and the innovative move is paying...

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