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Robots boost profits at last remaining prison farm

Britain's last remaining prison-run dairy farm has installed two milking robots, a move that has significantly increased milk yield from its herd of 120 pedigree Holsteins

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Robots boost profits at last remaining prison farm

Farm manager, Richard Gough, with help from farm consultant John Powrie and herdsman Peter Ruck, presides over Cilwrgi Farm, near Usk in Wales. The prison service bought the farm for H.M.P Usk and Prescoed...

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