Efficiency and cost gains from grazing sheep on fodder beet

The second in a series of articles on fodder beet looks at how the crop can be an efficient way of wintering large numbers of sheep in a small area, helping save pasture elsewhere. Hannah Park reports.

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Efficiency and cost gains from grazing sheep on fodder beet

The second in a series of articles on fodder beet looks at how the crop can be an efficient way of wintering large numbers of sheep in a small area, helping save pasture elsewhere. Hannah Park reports....

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