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In your field: Dan Jones on his Nuffield Farming Scholarship - "The sweltering heat and humidity were relentless"

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 on his Nuffield Farming Scholarship - "The sweltering heat and humidity were relentless"

Have I mentioned my Nuffield Farming Scholarship once or twice already? Sorry! To me it is one of my proudest achievements, up there with the National Trusts' 拢1 farm tenancy and Anglesey junior schools'...

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