France: Self-sufficient dairy farm aims for better profits

05-05-2022 | |
Overview of Boux sous Salmaise village with the different buildings of the farm. Photo: Philippe Caldier
Overview of Boux sous Salmaise village with the different buildings of the farm. Photo: Simon Belin
Located about 40 km east of Dijon close to the sources of the Seine river, the Belin farm in Burgundy, France, has always aimed for self-sufficiency and profitability with some investments. A strategy that Simon Belin, the third generation on-farm, intends to continue. Simon Belin with his parents Brigitte and Yves in the young heifers’s meadow. Photo: Philippe Caldier It is almost hidden behind the village church in a


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