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Neil Parish resignation, bird flu 'flockdown' ends, egg prices, British Beef Week, suckler cow prospects, NFU agri-food export strategy, AHDB Shape The Future vote, & Stuart Roberts joins Lib Dems

The Farmers Weekly Podcast

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Is There a Reduction in Herds?

Many of his members are very concerned about the future. They're doing their costings for making saageand an feed costs for next winter, and it's scaring them. I think we'll be looking at 20 to 50 per cent reductions in cow numbers this year. People are definitely thinking about what they're doing more and wishing a transition away from intensive breeding is happening. We're seeing people shifting towards less intensive strategies like easy cares' And also on the hills, maybe some shift from the black face to Maybe even up into the hillside.

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