IT'S BEEN a year of playing catch-up for Scottish farmers on the fodder front – but here's an almost unheard of fourth cut being taken in North Lanarkshire for Roberta Dunbar and Gordon Smith's Barncluth British Friesian herd at Cromlet, near Airdrie. Their 75-cow dairy herd will get the benefit of the earlier cuts, while the youngstock will get this late-made crop being harvested by Willie Coffey and Andrew Duff, baling and wrapping the silage: "It was too much to leave in the field," said Roberta
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