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"On the farm we've got a plant called the Royal Fern. There aren't many sites in South Wales with it still around. It's a very ancient plant dating back to the dinosaur age. These plants were quite huge then - they grew a lot bigger than they do now.
We've looked after the land and we've made it what it is today.
Jeoff Howells
We've also got the Marsh Fritillary butterfly. It's quite a rare butterfly. It's there really because there's a Scabius plant that grows on the field and that's what the butterfly needs.
We've entered in to a Tir Gofal agreement with the Countryside Council of Wales. It's now run by the Welsh Assembly. It's an environmental scheme where we are growing barley and we grow some root crops.
This has enhanced our wildlife and diversity on the farm. It's good for the farm and it's good for the output of the farm in some ways. It's also good the diversity of animals and birds around us.
Through the summer we've got the swallows and swifts and martins coming back from Africa. They make their nests in the farm buildings.
We've got lots of other animals - rabbits, hares, fox, badger, wild deer, and all the other creatures that you can think of - the mice and other voles which are normally out in the countryside. So we've get a fair amount of diversity on the farm.
Now we tend to be tucked away in our tractors with shut doors. They're so noisy we tend not to hear what's going on outside and just get on with our jobs.
I think the farmers these days haven't got the time to appreciate what's going on around them as they did years ago. You could spend an hour looking over a gate at what's going on and you didn't feel guilty. Now, you seem to always be thinking about the next job, because you're always running behind on the farming calendar.
There's more people coming out in to the countryside, and I think they've got to try to appreciate what farmers have done over the decades. We've looked after the land and we've made it what it is today."
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