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My name’s Antonio Sánchez. I’ve been a dairy farmer for about twenty years. I had another job before, but because what I like
best is this, the countryside, this is what I do now. This farm has a quota of two or three hundred thousand litres of milk a day.
The production’s a bit more than that. Every year we lease some under a temporary concession, and we’re producing about a million
and a half litres. There are three of us working here and sometimes our families lend a hand so we can go out at weekends.
I’d also like people to see that rural areas are compatible with anything. The only problem we farmers have is having to get up early,
the cold, the heat… but we basically do the same things anyone else in our society does: we go to the theatre, go to see a film,
go out for a drink, go away for the weekend…. We raise dairy cattle, which spend two years living like princesses on the dehesa, with
the idea that when they start to produce milk after about two years it’s of the best possible quality. And I think that’s what we usually
manage to achieve.