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50 shades of hay
Kia Ora & welcome to the third episode of The Tune Up with Trev. We're having a yarn to Richard Townshend and Jim Van Der Poel about dairy farm systems and the attributes of top performing farms.
Farm systems. We’ve all got our views on them. In this episode we're chatting to a couple of blokes who are operating at slightly different points along the spectrum to understand a bit more about what goes into a top performing farm - Dairy Direct Farm Supervisor & Director, Richard Townshend and DairyNZ Chair, Jim Van Der Poel.
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