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In your field: Dan Jones - 'I feel a renewed sense of confidence in the future'

Farm Life

In your field: Dan Jones - 'I feel a renewed sense of confidence in the future'

Dan Jones farms 650 ewes at the National Trust-owned Parc Farm, which sits on the Great Orme on the North Wales coast near Llandudno

clock 02 November 2024 鈥� 2 min read
In your field: Dan Hawes - "The shorts have been out more in the past few days than the whole of 2024"

In your field

In your field: Dan Hawes - "The shorts have been out more in the past few days than the whole of 2024"

Dan Hawes grew up on an arable farm in Suffolk and now produces strawberry and raspberry plants for the UK fruit market with Blaise Plants, sister company to Hugh Lowe Farms, Kent. The business grows outside, under tunnels and in glasshouses and produces more than four million plants a year. The arable side includes environmental schemes, with a mix of wheat, oilseed rape, beans and barley crops

clock 16 May 2024 鈥� 2 min read
In your field: Kate Rowell - 'I was back home at last, just in time to jump on the tractor and help with harvest'

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In your field: Kate Rowell - 'I was back home at last, just in time to jump on the tractor and help with harvest'

We eventually got our field of barley combined last week after a month of obsessing over every weather forecast and watching the undersown chicory, grass and clover grow ever taller until it almost looked like a green field again.

clock 01 November 2023 鈥� 3 min read
From Tom the young farmer: 'Other than the cows being half the size of what I am used to at home, I was also surprised at the paddock set ups'

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From Tom the young farmer: 'Other than the cows being half the size of what I am used to at home, I was also surprised at the paddock set ups'

In a new blog, renowned young farmer, Tom Everall, AKA Tom the young farmer, talks about his farming life and his travels to new Zealand.

clock 15 May 2023 鈥� 4 min read