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Reassessing replacement plan

Cost and carbon footprint have driven a Devon family to reduce the number of replacements reared.

Farmers Guardian
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Reassessing replacement plan

Cost and carbon footprint have driven a Devon family to reduce the number of replacements reared. The facts that it costs nearly 2,000 to rear a replacement heifer to calving and that unproductive animals...

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