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In your field: Dan Jones - "What's the takeaway? Sheep farming has a future 鈥� if we let it evolve"

Dan Jones farms 650 ewes at the National Trust-owned Parc Farm, which sits on the Great Orme, a limestone headland which rises up 208 metres (682 feet) on the North Wales coast near Llandudno. His Farm Business Tenancy covers the 58 hectares (143 acres) at Parc Farm, plus 364ha (900 acres) of grazing rights on the hill

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In your field: Dan Jones - "What's the takeaway? Sheep farming has a future 鈥� if we let it evolve"

After a heroic amount of procrastination and a suspiciously high caffeine bill, I've finally handed in my Nuffield Farming Scholarship report. And, as with most things in life 鈥� like fixing the quad or...

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