Change of Fortune for Cinderella Sector Farming

The Herald (January 14, 2006)

Author: Dan Buglass

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Summary

THE sheep industry has for many years been described as the Cinderella of UK farming.

In the 1960s most arable farms embraced a sheep enterprise, possibly with as few as 500 ewes and a fulltime shepherd. Consultants of that era advised their farmer clients to get rid of the f lock and plough up the grass to grow grain, which was reckoned to be a much more profitable enterprise.

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Change of Fortune for Cinderella Sector Farming

However, the wheel has turned. Most of the current breed of consultants and specialists reckon that a sizeable f lock of bree...

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