Roger Evans: "You could tell the financial state of dairy farming just by looking at these scraper tractors"

This month Roger Evans talks about some of the latest agricultural technology and also discusses an icon of the dairy farming world; the scraper tractor

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Roger Evans: "You could tell the financial state of dairy farming just by looking at these scraper tractors"

There are lots of magazines and newspapers that make their way onto this kitchen table and most of them are about farming and I read them all. This in itself is a big piece of work. But one thing is...

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