Our Farms Projects

Treathro is a 170-acre coastal moorland farm, rearing a herd of Red Ruby Devon cattle along with a small flock of Lleyn sheep. It is a forage-based system whereby all cattle are certified under the...

​​​​Project aims: 

• To evaluate changes in cow mature weight and cow efficiency in terms of weight of calf weaned as a percentage of cow...

Project aims:

• This project will embrace the principles of ‘Measure to Manage’, to enable the farmer to make decisions based on daily...

Key areas you wish to focus on as a demonstration farmer?

Sheep genetics: to improve the specification and marketability of lambs by developing flock genetics.

Cost of production: to explore opportunities for reducing...

Project Update - Tackling lameness in beef cattle

Key areas you wish to focus on as a demonstration farmer?

To optimise liveweight gain from forage

To consider which approaches are most effective for rectifying trace element shortfalls in our soils...

Project Objectives:

The project will consider using existing resources, developing the land adjacent to the shop, and fitting new enterprises in with the labour demands...

Main Objectives

• To become a more efficient business and investigate options for the farm.
• To rear all own cattle replacements and calve heifers at two years old.
• To improve grass growth...