Agriculture is now the island's main industry, and dairy farming is its most competitive business.

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Over the years the farm was used for raising goats and cattle, dairy farming, and growing corn.

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Mr Rowbottom said he left dairy farming 15 months ago, partly due to the state of the industry, but still runs an agricultural feed business alongside a sheep farm at Ipstones.

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"Our main concern relating to this application is that the introduction of intensive dairy farming is new (first planning application in Wales) and consequently very few if any regulations refer to this form of intensive farming, " he said.

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During his two years of research, Kardashian followed the trail of milk from the small pastoral farms that dot the countryside around his Vermont home to the industrial dairy cattle plants of the Midwest, and 12, 000 years back in time to the dawn of dairy farming.

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"Bovine TB continues to spread at an unacceptable rate, leading to the slaughter of thousands of cattle and ongoing misery for our dairy farmers, " said Farming Minister David Heath.

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Rice, barley, dairy products, and leaf tobacco farming operates under high tariff and non-tariff barrier protection.

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