Dairy Talk - Becky Fenton: "Good luck to them both commencing their farming journey"

This year is passing in the blink of an eye and there never seems to be enough hours in the day

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Dairy Talk - Becky Fenton: "Good luck to them both commencing their farming journey"

The weather in Cheshire has been particularly turbulent this year, proving no different this autumn. With only a few days to get silaging done, maize in and reseeded with the forecast against us, it...

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