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Hilltop flock with a lowland mindset: How one Welsh family is rethinking sheep farming

Farming up to 1,300 feet above sea level is not stopping one Welsh farming family from running a sheep system akin to a lowland flock

Angela Calvert
Head of Livestock, Shows and Sales
clock 鈥� 5 min read
Hilltop flock with a lowland mindset: How one Welsh family is rethinking sheep farming

In farming, life often comes full circle and no one illustrates that better than Rhys Edwards. He runs a flock of 520 Welsh Texel Mules alongside his parents, Russell and Eira, at Hendre Ifan Goch near...

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