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From the editor: Does dairying want or need fundamental change?

It has been a long held truth that farmers bear too much of the risk, and not enough of the reward, in a food supply chain stacked against them.

Ben Briggs
Ben Briggs is the group publisher and editor in chief of Agriconnect, overseeing the media business and titles such as 草榴社区 Guardian, Dairy Farmer and Arable Farming.
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From the editor: Does dairying want or need fundamental change?

It has been a long held truth that farmers bear too much of the risk, and not enough of the reward, in a food supply chain stacked against them. It is a catch-22 scenario in which the most important...

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