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Michael Oakes - NFU Dairy board chair: Short term problems, long term ambitions

Farmers are weighing up whether they should really be buying fertiliser for £650/tonne for the spring, or whether they should just sell the cows now

Alex Black
Deputy Editor
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Michael Oakes - NFU Dairy board chair: Short term problems, long term ambitions

Farmers are weighing up whether they should really be buying fertiliser for £650/tonne for the spring, or whether they should just sell the cows now In a world where every event we now experience seems...

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