Anna Jones
Welshpool, Powys
Sheep
SHEEP & BEEF, POWYS: Anna farms alongside her Dad John on 370 acres (150 hectares) in Mid Wales. It’s a family-run, upland sheep and beef farm with 800 Welsh Mule ewes, 45 cows (Hereford/Friesian crosses and Limousins) and a Charolais bull. They also have a small flock of pedigree Charollais rams, or tups, which are sold as commercial breeding stock.
The farm has been supplying lamb to Waitrose for more than 25 years. All the lambs go straight to the abattoir from the farm.
Anna has worked with horses longer than she's been farming sheep. She loves riding and competes in one day events.
Talking Point
Anna works her dog Jill on the farm every day and they have competed in sheepdog trials together.
Farm diversification
Anna runs a small livery yard. There are seven stables in an enclosed, American style barn, an all weather arena, a turn out pen and all year grazing. She grazes the horse paddocks with sheep and the muck from the stables is used throughout the farm on the fields.
Declared interests
Member of the National Farmers Union (NFU), National Sheep Association (NSA), Country Land and Business Association (CLA), Countryside Alliance
Media experience
Photographed in local newspaper and Horse and Hound magazine for riding achievements.
Happy to talk about
animal welfare
antibiotic use
beef
environmental stewardship
farming in Wales
forage research
grassland management
horses
hunting
lamb
riding
sheep
sheepdog trialling
upland farming
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