In your field: Alan Carter - "The children asked some great questions"

Alan Carter farms in partnership with his parents, Paul and Christine, on a 162 hectare (400-acre), 400-cow dairy unit at Constantine, Cornwall, with 130 milking cows, supplying Saputo. Alan, also a Parish Councillor, and his wife Sarah, have two children, Ross and Dana

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In your field: Alan Carter - "The children asked some great questions"

It has been raining. A lot. There is not much to add to that really, apart from the fields are sharing more characteristics with the ocean than the land now. Water seems to be everywhere and spring...

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