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Dan Vevers

Farmer at Rabbie Burns' Ayrshire farm transforms business by going green

A pioneering eco-conscious farmer who works the same land Rabbie Burns once did has saved his business by going green.

Dad-of-four Bryce Cunningham told how his family nearly lost it all eight years ago. But now the 36-year-old, who runs Mossgiel Farm near Mauchline in Ayrshire, has been hailed for his groundbreaking environmental efforts.

They include becoming the first dairy farm in Britain to eliminate single-use plastics as well as switching to electric delivery vans and heating his estate with biomass. He revealed he’d had no intention of running the dairy farm back in 2013.

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