The FarmED Podcast: Holistic Planned Grazing with Rob Havard

Our guest this month is cattle farmer, ecologist, Nuffield scholar and trainer Rob Havard, who will be running a course on Holistic Planned Grazing at FarmED on 11th March.

After working for various wildlife trusts and conservation organisations, Rob returned to his family’s farm and now he and his wife, Lizzie, run Phepson Angus, a 100% grass-fed suckler herd of Pedigree Aberdeen Angus across 1,200 acres of diverse pasture in Worcestershire and Shropshire.

Rob talks to Alex Dye about his passion for combining productivity with ecological gain. ’I do think we can get to industry standard suckler cow stocking rates with probably at least a third if not quarter of the costs and at that point an ecological cattle system becomes more profitable than a conventional system,’ he says.

Rob describes his eureka moment and how holistic management provides a ‘framework’ for farming. He explains why he was so inspired by the bison on the Great Plains in America and how he convinced his farmer father to embrace farming more regeneratively. Rob also talks about travelling to Argentina and Uruguay as part of the research for his Nuffield Scholarship and closer to home, discussed the delights of involving his whole family in spotting the orchids on his farm, which have increased as a result of their farming systems.

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Links

https://www.phepsonangus.com/

https://www.farm-ed.co.uk/events/220/holistic-planned-grazing-with-rob-havard

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