2025
Claire farms traditional beef shorthorn cattle at Gowbarrow Hall Farm in Cumbria. The farm is mainly permanent grassland, all classed as either severely disadvantaged area (SDA) or SDA moorland. In 2018 they chose to start practising regenerative farming and adding value to their produce by selling direct. They overwinter all their stock except in exceptional circumstances, using a combination of electric fence rotational grazing, deferred grazing in wood pasture and bale grazing.
When implementing mob grazing, one of the first questions people ask is how many animals in how big a paddock for how long? In this workshop we will explore all aspects of carrying capacity and grazing planning, what calculations to make, how many days grazing are available, how many animals can be fed…we will work […]