Roger and Nat Marsden

Nat and Roger run a beef and sheep farm over 1000 acres on the edge of the Forest of Bowland. They ran a conventional system until four years ago when they started to experiment with rotational grazing, firstly with the cattle.

The farm consists of 50 registered Luing breeding cattle with the progeny being kept for replacements or finished off grass. Some of the fattening cattle are sold directly as boxed beef, and the rest sold to a local abattoir. 20-30 dairy bred beef calves are purchased annually from a local dairy farm which are reared to strong stores before being sold through the local auction mart. The sheep flock mainly consisted of Swaledales on the fell ground and Mules and Texel crosses on the lower ground. More recently Cheviot and Easydam genetics have been introduced. Fat lambs are sold dead weight via a local collection centre to Kepak.