How organic premiums make a low-input system stack up on Devon farm

Champion sheep shearer Alan Derryman runs a large New Zealand Romney flock and a 70-cow Stabiliser herd on his organic unit in Devon

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How organic premiums make a low-input system stack up on Devon farm

Alan Derryman has no regrets about the organic conversion of Home Farm, Sidbury, in 2007. The breeding policies are aimed at minimal labour input and progeny that will finish on home-produced feedstuffs....

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