Dairy Talk: Becky Fenton: "Unfortunately, milk contracts are not farmer-friendly"

Becky Fenton and husband Paul milk 200 pedigree Holsteins under the Springlebee prefix at Centenary Farm, a Cheshire county council farm. In 2021, they bought a farm in Staffordshire and they plan to farm there once the new dairy set-up has been built

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Becky Fenton.

As I write this, we've just finished our first few fields of silaging here in Cheshire – around 30 acres where the grazing fields had got ahead of us, so we decided to put them in the clamp. We'll...

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