In your field: Dan Jones - "I am one of the luckiest people in the world to have a way of life I love"

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

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In your field: Dan Jones - "I am one of the luckiest people in the world to have a way of life I love"

It has been quite the lambing season this year, with the weather gods playing a rather cruel joke. I dare say this has been the wettest and coldest April I have ever experienced. At one point, as...

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