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From the editor: Too many farmers exposed by dairy's dangerous game

For several decades now the UK dairy sector has often been the dysfunctional arm of the UK farming family.

Ben Briggs
Ben Briggs is the group publisher and editor in chief of Agriconnect, overseeing the media business and titles such as Farmers Guardian, Dairy Farmer and Arable Farming.
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From the editor: Too many farmers exposed by dairy's dangerous game

For several decades now the UK dairy sector has often been the dysfunctional arm of the UK farming family. It plays a high stakes game of expansionism, but in doing so there are often serious casualties...

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