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Dairy special: Calf rearing gains from new purpose-built facility

Insights04 Dec 2018by Katie Jones

A purpose-built calf rearing shed has meant Harry Roper and his team are able to hit the target daily liveweight gains needed to calve heifers down at 24 months of age.

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