Letters: "The key to why we are still in milk is succession planning"

Peter Gantlett emailed FG to share his thoughts on succession planning and Inheritance Tax in dairy farming

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Letters: "The key to why we are still in milk is succession planning"

Through Just Farmers, we hosted a team from The Telegraph last week, to talk about the numbers of dairy farmers going out of business. More than one a day. Succession planning The key to why we are...

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