Claire Beaumont
2024
Claire and Sam Beaumont farm 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. A few years ago 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 deferred grazing in wood pasture, bale grazing and electric fence rotational grazing for weaned calves.
My Sessions
Bale Grazing – Lessons From Our Field Lab
Nikki Yoxall
Stuart Mitchell
Silas Hedley-Lawrence
Ian Horsley
Claire Beaumont
Six Pasture for Life member farms have come together in an Innovative Farmers Field Lab to undertake a four year study to explore the impacts of bale grazing on soil and forage. In this session we will hear from three of the field lab farmers who have been implementing bale grazing as an outwintering strategy […]