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In your field: Helen Stanier 鈥� "It's been extremely encouraging to see so much of a buzz around increased consumer demand for whole milk"

Helen is a fifth-generation farmer who farms with her parents, David and Anne Shaw, husband, Craig, and their children, Alfred and Hattie, at Grey Leys Farm in the Vale of York. The farm comprises 162 hectares (400 acres) of grass, maize and wholecrop for the herd of 240 pedigree Jersey cows and more than 200 followers

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It's been extremely encouraging to see so much of a buzz around increased consumer demand for whole milk 鈥� and particularly Channel Island milk 鈥� recently, with several articles published on both social...

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