Dairy Talk - Gemma Smale-Rowland: "A small barbed wire cut led to a trip to A&E and resulted in sepsis"

It has been a late season here in Cornwall with the rain and cold weather delaying the progress of everything

Katie Jones
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Dairy Talk - Gemma Smale-Rowland: "A small barbed wire cut led to a trip to A&E and resulted in sepsis"

We were three weeks later than normal cutting silage, and the abundance of grass we had through the winter suddenly slowed up as the ground temperatures were just so cold. With being a smaller family...

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