In your field – Alan Carter: "Spring is the time of new life and fresh starts, and the year really begins"

Alan Carter farms in partnership with his parents, Paul and Christine, on a 162-hectare (400-acre), 400-cow dairy unit at Constantine, Cornwall, supplying Saputo

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In your field – Alan Carter: "Spring is the time of new life and fresh starts, and the year really begins"

The 17th-Century poet, Anne Bradstreet, said: ‘If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.' Spring is my favourite season. It is the time of new life and fresh starts and when I feel the...

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