Articles for Farmers

Pasture for Life – Case Study – Neil Heseltine, Yorkshire Dales

Published on: June 7, 2016

Here is the second of the farmer case studies from the booklet ‘Pasture for Life – It can be done’ – The farm business case for feeding ruminants just on pasture.

New, free online health and welfare resource

Published on: May 9, 2016

Sustainable food and farming organisation A Greener World (AGW) has just launched Farm Health Online, an interactive website to help farmers care for their animals.

Pasture for Life – Case Study – Chris Jones, Cornwall

Published on: May 8, 2016

Early this year ‘Pasture for Life – It can be done – The farm business case for feeding ruminants just on pasture’ was published, including eight case studies of farmers who have submitted their figures to the Stocktake costings programme. Over the coming months we shall be running all the farmer stories here. To start, Chris Jones in Cornwall.

Pasture for Life farm hosts new meadows group

Published on: September 1, 2015

Thirty people gathered this week (19 August) to view special meadows created in south Herefordshire by Pasture for Life farmer Simon Cutter, for a meeting of the new Herefordshire Meadows Network.

Grass-fed meat is on the grow in UK – Farmers Weekly

Published on: November 18, 2014

Russ Carrington wrote to Farmers Weekly recently, to outline the growing opportunities for UK farmers to market meat from animals that have been raised and finished on pasture with no grain at all.