Beans

The national crop area of beans, practices of home feeding, and utilisation within the feed industry in general have increased.

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Policy - a word that turns most people off - is probably an unpromising one to start an article. It was, however, CAP reform that started some mixed farmers thinking about how best to make the most of the greening regulations to maximise their home-produced protein and reduce their outgoings. Since then the national crop area of beans, practices of home feeding, and utilisation within the feed industry in general have increased. (Roger Vickers CEO of PGRO)

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