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Who says coal and cows don't go together?

Results from Rio's cattle grazing study show farmers and miners might be able to get along.

Noel Dyson
Who says coal and cows don't go together?

At a final weigh-in this week 10 steers that spent the past 18 months on land rehabilitated by Rio Tinto were found to be 150kg heavier on average than cattle grazed on unmined farming land. The cattle...

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