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Early-maturing maize variety boosts silage yields on Oxfordshire dairy farm

Farming on the northern margins of the North Wessex Downs, Hamish McIntosh has always tried to maximise the contribution maize makes to his milking ration

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Hamish McIntosh has a 400-cow milking herd at Hardwell Farm, Oxfordshire.
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Hamish McIntosh has a 400-cow milking herd at Hardwell Farm, Oxfordshire.

Soil types vary across Hardwell Farm, near Knighton, Oxfordshire, where Hamish McIntosh runs a 400-cow milking herd alongside 80 hectares (200 acres) of arable cropping and a similar acreage of grassland....

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