Finishing quality cattle every week begins with quality stores

Producing the carcase specification their regular customers want, is key to a Lancashire beef finishing enterprise which has evolved over decades. Howard Walsh visited the Wilcock family

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Martin Wilcock and son Theo
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Martin Wilcock and son Theo

Gladden Hey Farm, near Ashton-in-Makerfield, has been in the Wilcock family for generations and was a 23-hectare (56-acre) holding when the late David Wilcock took the reins in the mid-1970s. It now...

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