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Dairy Talk - Dan Burdett: "It does show how easy it would be for a serving season to go badly wrong"

Dan and his family own and run the 300-hectare (741-acre) Cockhaise Farm, near Haywards Heath, West Sussex. The farm is home to an organic autumn-calving herd of 240 Holstein and Friesian crosses. He also contract farms another organic autumn-calving herd of 220 cows at Bore Place, near Edenbridge, Kent

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24 March 2026 鈥� 3 min read

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January must be my least favourite time of year, as I'm sure it is for many reading this. The buzz of adrenaline that comes from the first six weeks of serving has dissipated, replaced by an endless...

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