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eco-friendly dairy farming

TESS Sellar loves being surrounded by lactating females. And her bovine females give back to her the most delicious creamy milk imaginable — far, far removed from conventional supermarket milk. I caught up with Tess at Mount Alexander, Central Victoria, just after her once-daily milking of her six Jerseys, and asked how she became a dairy farmer with a difference.

“I grew up in Northern Victoria on a hobby farm, and

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