Gillian Williams has an impeccable pedigree when it comes to her knowledge of sheep! Brought up on a 22,000 acre sheep farm, breeding them, shearing them and making money from them comes naturally to this Falklands-born sheep farmer who now lives at her family’s farm near Tywyn.
But when it came to applying all that experience and knowledge to sustainable sheep farming in Wales, with its very different climate and topography, Gillian felt she still had more to learn.
She credits Farming Connect’s Agrisgôp programme with introducing her to new ideas about how to maximise the value of the wool from the flock of 250 mainly Romney Marsh/Welsh Mountain cross breed ewes, she and her husband started to breed three years ago, following the purchase of Romney rams.
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