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In your field: Alan Carter 鈥� "When you have been in a parlour since the pushchair, you can take all this for granted"

Alan Carter farms in partnership with his parents, Paul and Christine, on a 162-hectare (400-acre), 400-cow dairy unit at Constantine, Cornwall, supplying Saputo

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In your field: Alan Carter 鈥� "When you have been in a parlour since the pushchair, you can take all this for granted"

Sustainable Farming Incentive The cancellation of the most recent Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) scheme has been rightly met with disappointment. We have entered a lot of our land into Countryside...

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