Red Angus delivers for low-input farming systems

Since becoming UK multipliers for Red Angus in the 1990s, Robert and Sophie Whitcombe have been working hard to widen the gene pool

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Red Angus delivers for low-input farming systems

Breeding low-input cattle that thrive on forage has become vogue in recent years as farmers face the demise of the Basic Payment Scheme. But for Aberdeen-Angus breeders Robert and Sophie Whitcombe, who...

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