Grisial Pugh Jones

North Montgomeryshire

Grisial Pugh Jones is the Farming Connect development officer for North Montgomeryshire. Grisial is from Dinas Mawddwy, on the border between Montgomeryshire and Meirionnydd. She is from an agricultural background, and keeps sheep on the home farm, but she now lives on a beef and sheep farm in Dolgellau. It’s a mixture of a lowland and upland farm, therefore there’s plenty of variation. We have focussed on grassland management and improving animal health in the last few years in order to improve the farm’s efficiency. As well as this, developing the caravan and camping over the last few years has reinforced the business and works well alongside the farm.

She studied business at Bangor University, before working as an insurance consultant with NFU in Dolgellau for seven years. As Grisial enjoys the agricultural side and supporting farmers, she joined the Farming Connect team.

“It’s a challenging time for Welsh farmers at the moment. My role as development officer is to signpost businesses to the variety of services which is available to support them to develop their business, and themselves as individuals.”

“As we have taken advantage of Farming Connect services ourselves, I have seen how effective and useful Farming Connect is to farmers and therefore enjoy seeing others getting the same advantage, and developing their business for the future.”