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In Your Field – Alan Carter: "I don't pretend to know everything about cows, but I know the type I would like to go through a parlour"

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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When I realised that this piece would be published during the week of the Royal Cornwall Show, I went back and checked what I had written in previous years. I didn't want to repeat myself, which can be...

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