#FarmingCan - Bruce Mackie: 'Efficiency and effective communication are crucial to long-term business sustainability'

Having taken over the farm tenancy taken on by his father in 1966, Bruce Mackie farms some 30 miles north of Aberdeen, where he milks 250 cows through four Lely robots on an organic system and produces yoghurt on the farm under the Rora Dairy brand.

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#FarmingCan - Bruce Mackie: 'Efficiency and effective communication are crucial to long-term business sustainability'

Having taken over the farm tenancy taken on by his father in 1966, Bruce Mackie farms some 30 miles north of Aberdeen, where he milks 250 cows through four Lely robots on an organic system and produces...

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