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Dairy sheep open up new opportunities for Dartmoor farm

A think outside the box mindset and passion for farming has been the driving force for Jess Dagnall in establishing Dartmoor’s first sheep dairy

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Dairy sheep open up new opportunities for Dartmoor farm

Now in her fifth year as shepherd manager at Coombe Court in Moretonhampstead and still only 32, Jess Dagnall has not let being born without connections to agriculture limit her passion. "It is something...

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