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Dan Jones farms 650 ewes at the National Trust-owned Parc Farm, which sits on the Great Orme on the North Wales coast near Llandudno

Dan Hawes grew up on an arable farm in Suffolk and now produces strawberry and raspberry plants for the UK fruit market with Blaise Plants, sister company to Hugh Lowe Farms, Kent. The business grows outside, under tunnels and in glasshouses and produces more than four million plants a year. The arable side includes environmental schemes, with a mix of wheat, oilseed rape, beans and barley crops

We eventually got our field of barley combined last week after a month of obsessing over every weather forecast and watching the undersown chicory, grass and clover grow ever taller until it almost looked like a green field again.

In a new blog, renowned young farmer, Tom Everall, AKA Tom the young farmer, talks about his farming life and his travels to new Zealand.