Dairy Talk - Becky Fenton: If you want to be sustainable, focus on farm efficiency

I start this column on a high; we have just returned from a skiing holiday in France

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Becky Fenton

It was our first family ski holiday and the boys took to it like duck to water (annoyingly they're better than me already). I expect this will be a yearly vacation now. We are very fortunate to have...

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