View from the rostrum: Stephen Dodsworth - Prices are high, moods are low.

Stephen Dodsworth on farmers' fears

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On the face of things, the livestock prices are leaps and bounds ahead of our wildest dreams just a couple of years ago, however somehow all does not necessarily seem harmonious. I, for one, have a...

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