When Sam Watson Jones returned to Shropshire, a rural county in the UK, to take over the running of his family’s farm in 2011, he could see straight away that it wasn’t working as a business. Watson Jones, the fourth generation to work the family farm, had previously been a management consultant in London and knew his way around a spreadsheet. The farm accounts did not make business sense.
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