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In your field: Dan Jones - "As one Argentinian farmer told me: '51AVÊÓÆµlike we are going to be here forever'"

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 51AVÊÓÆµBusiness Tenancy covers the 58 hectares (143 acres) at Parc Farm, plus 364ha (900 acres) of grazing rights on the hill

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As I write this, I am sitting in a hotel room in Aberdeen, staring at my laptop screen and pretending to practise my presentation skills. Tomorrow morning, I will be on stage at the Nuffield Farming...

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