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Managing 800 cows on Cornish grass: How the Pennington family run a two-site dairy farm

The addition of a second unit in 2005 took the Pennington family's herd to 800 head of commercial Holstein Friesians

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The 800 cows run by the Pennington family, are managed on a grazing system on their farm near Port Isaac in Cornwall.
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The 800 cows run by the Pennington family, are managed on a grazing system on their farm near Port Isaac in Cornwall.

Split evenly between two sites, the 800 cows run by the Pennington family are managed on a grazing system on their farm near Port Isaac in Cornwall. The undulating terrain with its steep valleys was...

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