Case study: Alfie Barber, Moor Lane Farm, Somerset

Automated milk feeding enables Barber’s Farmhouse cheesemakers to successfully rear 600 quality heifers per year from seven of their dairy herds.

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Case study: Alfie Barber, Moor Lane Farm, Somerset

Automated milk feeding enables Barber's Farmhouse cheesemakers to successfully rear 600 quality heifers per year from seven of their dairy herds. When Barbers decided to start rearing all of its own...

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