Selected Timeline:
Circa 2000BC (or so) - farmers are active in Wales.
Circa 1760 - Thomas Davies takes over at Caeadda farm. This was the first generation of the Davies/Pughe family at Caeadda farm and today, Dafydd Pughe mans the farm now, the seventh generation doing so.
Circa 1800s - Open cast pits mining for slate were started in the hills of the Dyfi Valley. Continues untill the early 1900s.
1837 - Caeadda farm, as part of a larger estate, is split up and sold by order of local courts due to a family argument related to inheritance.
1849 - Gwen Davis (Jones) marries Thomas Davies and starts working Caeadda farm.
1891 - When Gwen is widowed in 1891, she takes over and starts running the business with her eldest son, John Davies. Uniquely for a local woman at that time, she entered rams into local agricultural shows winning prizes, but never 1st.
1897 - John Davies dies. As the next two brothers in line were already established at another farm and as a chemist, the 4th eldest son, David Davis, takes over at Caeadda. He dies at the farm 63 years later.
Circa 1920s - Mechanisation enters farming. Machinery such as tractors meant the need to employ labourers quickly diminished.
1962 - What has become the Basic Payment Scheme introduced. The scheme gives farmers an annual payment alongside other subsidies in an effort to provide national food security. On average this becomes 60% of a Welsh farmer’s income.
1966 - Trevor Owen Davies, who had taken over the farm after John Davies, dies and Caeadda is passed to the descendants of his Aunt, Jane Nutting.
1972 - Mairwen and Willie Pughe, parents of Gwen, Dafydd, Rwth and John, are living at Caeadda farm tending sheep.
Crica 1980s - John Pughe takes over at Morben farm where he and his siblings had grown up before moving to Caeadda.
Crica 1985 - Dafydd Pughe takes over gradually at Caeadda.
2019 - Rhidian Glyn, son of Gwen and nephew to Dafydd and John Pughe, becomes tenant farmer at Rhiwgriafol farm.
2023 - Basic payment scheme ends.
2024 - New post-brexit governmental support scheme for farms will be in place called the Environmental Land Management Scheme. Many farms will loose their annual payment scheme which they have become reliant on.