Dairy Talk: Gemma Smale-Rowland - 'Kind weather always helps the Cornish economy and this year has definitely been a good year for that'

Dairy Talk: Gemma Smale-Rowland - Kind weather always helps the Cornish economy and this year has definitely been a good year for that

29 September 2022 • 2 min read

Fourth-generation farmer Gemma Smale-Rowland farms with her parents at North Petherwin, near Launceston, north Cornwall, where they milk 120 pedigree Holsteins under the Glebewin prefix. Gemma established...

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Dairy Talk: Gemma Smale-Rowland - 'Kind weather always helps the Cornish economy and this year has definitely been a good year for that'