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How did you get involved in conservation?

It was my dad’s initiative. He was a trailblazer back in the late ‘60s when agriculture was putting its foot on the accelerator for food production. Every county and region has or has had its own breeds, but agriculture wanted milk-producing athletes, beef animals that were really beefy and fast-growing lean pigs and lambs, so the old-fashioned breeds didn’t really suit that. The

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