In your field: Thomas Carrick - 'Most farmers on these hills would swap all their triplets for singles'

When it is mild and wet all winter, all I can think is that a bit of cold, dry weather would do just fine.

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In your field: Thomas Carrick - 'Most farmers on these hills would swap all their triplets for singles'

When it is mild and wet all winter, all I can think is that a bit of cold, dry weather would do just fine. Stock look better and seem content in frosty weather and, while it has been colder and snowier...

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