Oliver Chedgey
2024
I am a first-generation farmer who started off my own business using sheep and beef cattle to graze the uncropped land of the local arable farmers eventually building up to 1200 acres of land. The next progression from this was to move into Dairy farming and to enter into a share farming agreement at Kingsclere estates. I am now milking 450 organic cows once a day on a pasture-based system through a mobile milking parlour, one of only four in the whole of the United Kingdom.
My Sessions
Mobile Dairy: Making it Work
Whether You Think You Can, or You Think You Can’t You’re Right
Nikki Yoxall
Sam Carey
Phyllida Warmington
Oliver Chedgey
The dairy sector often comes under pressure to demonstrate its sustainability, change can be difficult, and our mindset is an important part of how we enable change on our farms. In this session we will hear from three dairy farmers who have made changes on their farms that many would consider strange, reckless, maybe even […]