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    As we know there are beef herds and dairy herds. There was an interesting piece on Farming Today which said, to some shock and horror, that we are now importing 1million gallons of milk a day. Yes a day! The time is long gone it seems when we were self supporting...our daily milk, or a heck of a lot of it, now comes from Holland , Belgium and Northern Ireland. Requiring of course much use of the carbon footprint.

    Returns are so low for the UK farmer in dairy production that many of them have called it a day to do something else. Dairy Cows down from 2.1m to 1.9m, sadly I neglected to get the timeslot for these figures but it may be in one year.

    So the number of cows in the landscape may be reducing here in the UK but it makes no difference to the planet. They simply increase the number to compensate elsewhere. The simple reason being that we all consume massive amounts of milk ( and cheese and....)

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