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Welsh family dairy farm questions future after bTB breakdown

Normally the family aim to milk a herd of around 120 cows, but at the moment they are only milking 70 cows

Rachael Brown
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Welsh family dairy farm questions future after bTB breakdown

A dairy farmer from west Wales who has recently gone down with bovine TB again has described the period between results and the cows leaving the farm, as the ‘worst time'. Colin Evans farms a predominantly...

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