In your field: Alan Carter - "When working with livestock it is best to not take things said during stressful moments too personally"

Alan Carter farms in partnership with his parents, Paul and Christine, at Constantine, Cornwall, where they milk 130 cows and supply Saputo. Total cattle numbers stand at 420 head kept on 162 hectares (400 acres). Alan and his wife Sarah have two children, Ross and Dana and the family also run three self-catering holiday lets

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In your field: Alan Carter - "When working with livestock it is best to not take things said during stressful moments too personally"

As I am writing this, we have been home for a day following a week's holiday in Menorca. This was the first time that we have taken the children abroad, and a decade since Sarah and I have left the country....

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