LETTER FROM EUROPE: Water buffalo get a foothold on north European farms

Only 10 years ago, few would have taken these animals seriously as a livestock enterprise in the north. Now buffalo herds are proving profitable as providers of tasty and healthy meat

by NORMAN DUNN

In the not too distant past, livestock farmers in Europe tended to stay lifelong with the same species.

Once a dairy farmer, always a dairy farmer. When a young farmer went down the swine production road, he tended to follow it to retirement.

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