March 2023 news articles
Pasture for Life in the news recently.
Conservation grazing brings in income for PfL members, Bill & Cath Grayson
Read the following Farmer’s Guardian article about the Graysons who are based in Cumbria. They farm with 80 Red Poll cattle under the Morecambe Bay Conservation Grazing Company name, and have been earning a living since 2002 through their conservation grazing agreements covering 1,360 acres.
Read the article here. Pdf version pages 1, 2 & 3. (Photo: Farmers Guardian).
PfL farmer Andy Rumming using marginal land to increase the value of farm output
The following Farmers Weekly article outlines how PfL farmer Andy Rumming, who runs Waterhay Farm near Cirencester, is using marginal land to increase the value of output from his grassland farm by producing valuable forage from flood-prone land.
Read the article here. Pdf version pages 1 & 2. (Photo: Andy Rumming).
How Matt and Laura Elliot progressed from a city allotment to securing a farm tenancy
PfL farmers, Laura and Matt Elliot sell Pasture for Life certified beef under the name ‘Sandy Hill Mob’ from their Hereford cattle which are kept on a fully outdoor and pasture-based system. Read the following Farmers Guardian article about how they progressed into farming and secured a farm tenancy only on their second application. Previously, the couple both worked in an office with no link to farming but through a love of food provenance progressed to farm in their own right.
Read the Farmers Guardian article here. Pdf version pages 1, 2 & 3. (Photo: Farmers Guardian).
Pasture for Life benefits showcased at Carr Farm in Norfolk
First-generation farmers, David and Nicola Chapman, run Carr farm in the Norfolk Broads near Burgh St Peter. They have converted their small arable farm to a biodiverse pastoral habitat using Belted Galloway cattle which they sell meat from. They have been Pasture for Life certified since 2017 (the first PfL certified farm in Norfolk). The farm has taken part in Pasture for Life’s biodiversity case study series on the impacts of 100% pasture-fed systems, showing an increase in the number and species of plants, insects and birdlife on the farm.
Read the Eastern Daily Press article here. (Photo: Carr Farm, Norfolk).
Beef farmer of the year finalist
We’re delighted to see that PfL certified Simon Hare, who runs Trees House Farm and Dent House Farm in County Durham, is one of the Beef Farmer of the Year Finalists in the Northern Farming Awards 2023.
See the Northern Farmer article here. (Photo: The Northern Farmer).
