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Dairy Talk: Ifan Roberts – "I realised how fortunate I am to have such a great support network"

As I look back, 2024 was a year of lots of change for me, my business and farming in general in more ways than one

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Nuffield Scholar Ifan Roberts
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Nuffield Scholar Ifan Roberts

The year began with helping to calve 900 cows in the early spring at Houghton Lodge in Leicester. I then went along with my fellow Nuffield scholar cohort to our contemporary scholars' conference in Brazil....

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