NOT EVERYONE CAN BE IN THE TOP 25

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The average British dairy and livestock producer has done an awful lot right over the years and yet is still struggling to earn a decent living. That has to change according to Irishman Gerard Keenan, chief executive of feed technology supplier Keenan, who believes more has to be done to champion those not performing so well. In Britain, the thing that's been really striking is the expansion in the herds, reductions in the cost of labour and huge improvements in efficiency that farmers have achieved.British farmers have been better at these things than anyone else. But there was more money and a better lifestyle across the livestock sector 30 years ago. I think farmers here have had to go through an enormous shift and have done an awful lot of stuff right - working hard, taking costs out and investing in efficiency -but it doesn't necessarily feel they are better off as a result of it.