Dairy Talk - Stuart Sadler: "Our milk buyer didn't pick up our milk for four days"

Stuart Sadler is a fourth-generation farmer on the 56-hectare (138-acre) Yew Tree Farm just south of Chester in Aldersey. In partnership with his parents, Stuart milks 75 predominantly Friesian cows calving all year-round supplying Arla C.A.R.E.

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Stuart Sadler.
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Stuart Sadler.

We had hoped for a steady Christmas period and in the main it was, albeit a phone call from our milk buyer on the eve of December 23 telling us they would not be picking our milk up for the following four...

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