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Robotic farm turns focus to efficiency gains

Following significant investment in his family's dairy farm, Andrew Leggot is now focusing on achieving small improvements in efficiency

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The first robotic milkers were installed at White House Farm, near Northallerton, in 2007. Back then, Andrew Leggot, who runs the family farm in partnership with his wife Sarah and his parents George and...

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