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Article: Suckler farms are like zoos!(News)
- Article from:
- The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
- Article date:
- October 28, 2000
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Byline: DAVID McCOY
BASIL Lowman, the suckler cow specialist from the Scottish Agricultural Colleges on a visit to farms in the Coleraine/Limavady area, claimed: "Too many suckler farms are like zoos!
"You have two of this and two of that," he said.
Most farms have a few Simmental X cows, a few Limousin X, some Charolais X, a couple of Aberdeen ...