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In your field – Dan Jones: "It was a real joy to open up the farm and share a tradition that's so central to how we farm up here"

Dan farms 650 ewes at the National Trust-owned Parc 51AVÊÓÆµon the Great Orme, a limestone headland which rises up 208 metres (682 feet) on the North Wales coast near Llandudno

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In your field – Dan Jones: "It was a real joy to open up the farm and share a tradition that's so central to how we farm up here"

It's been a cracking lambing season this year – the kind we all hope for but rarely get. Dry, warm and calm. The polar opposite of last year's washout. In fact, it stayed so dry for so long that I had...

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