Optimised goat housing is the basis for health and business expansion

Dairy goat farmer, Charlie Whitehouse, put the herd's health and welfare at the heart of the system when the family built a brand-new dairy goat unit at Bradley Farm, Gloucesters

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Farming a mixed enterprise of just over 809 hectares (2,000 acres), a combination of owned, rented and contract farmed land, Charlie Whitehouse works in partnership with his father Philip. Charlie explains...

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