Dairy Talk: Tom Rawson - 'The weather, the food and the beer did not disappoint as we reflected on the last few years and caught our breath'

Well that’s another year done, with the highlights being a record-breaking milk price and plenty of dry hot weather. The lowlights being huge cost inflation and the drought.

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Dairy Talk: Tom Rawson - 'The weather, the food and the beer did not disappoint as we reflected on the last few years and caught our breath'

Well thats another year done, with the highlights being a record-breaking milk price and plenty of dry hot weather. The lowlights being huge cost inflation and the drought. We have finished calving...

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