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Expansion plan put in action at Shropshire family dairy farm

A project to lift cow numbers to 1,800 within a decade has been completed by the Oakley family, and included the installation of a rotary parlour and a move to being fully housed

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Some 1,550 commercial Holstein Friesians go through the parlour three times a day at Lower Shadymoor Farm, near Shrewsbury, explains Miles Oakley, who farms with his parents, Mike and Davina. "In 2014,...

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