Dairy Farmer - From the Editor: "At times the rainfall was nothing short of biblical"

From Dairy Farmer editor, Katie Jones.

Katie Jones
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Dairy Farmer - From the Editor: "At times the rainfall was nothing short of biblical"

Last month, I started my column by talking about waterlogged fields and delayed turnout. It turns out that for the UK as a whole, the 18 months to March 2024 ranks as the fourth wettest on record, with 2,085.6mm of...

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