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Dairy special: Robots relieve the workload on Staffordshire family farm

Moving from a conventional parlour to three milking robots is helping one Staffordshire farming family boost milk yields and relieve workloads

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(L-r) Will and Rachael Shaw, with Pete and Lizzie Cotton
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(L-r) Will and Rachael Shaw, with Pete and Lizzie Cotton

The Cotton family have 195 milkers in the Chasmar Holstein herd which calve all year round at Blakeley Farm, Whiston, with a similar number of followers. The 121-hectare (300-acre) farm has been in...

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