Dairy Talk - Robert Reed: "I hope 2025 is the year that our Government realises that they need a farmer every single day to live and eat"

As with all farmers, the weather is one of our biggest influences on nearly everything we do

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Dairy Talk - Robert Reed: "I hope 2025 is the year that our Government realises that they need a farmer every single day to live and eat"

Last year, we started first cut on April 18 and managed to do six cuts. On our light soils, 2024 has been an exceptional year for grass growth, the grass only started to give up once for a short period...

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