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DEAR SIR:
I cannot see the new Beef Environment Efficiency Pilot (BEEP) scheme stopping the exit from suckler cows to dairy.
It will take a complete change to the structure of the beef sector to make it profitable and appealing to farmers. While the dairy industry is floating nicely on all the existing milk and new milk, dairy farming was always ahead down through the years, but it seems that the milk quotas ending has pushed dairy production and the feel-good factor through the roof.
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