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- Why start mob grazing?
Why start mob grazing?
Why start mob grazing?
Farmers report that implementing a mob grazing system leads to better soil health, healthier cattle and lower costs.
The Mob Grazing group first met at Comielaw Farm on the Balcaskie Estate in Fife in October 2018. At that point the farm team were in their second year of experimenting with mob grazing.
English beef farmer and long-term Holistic Management practitioner Rob Havard gave a presentation about the benefits of Mob Grazing, which you can read here or watch the video:
Explore the benefits of mob grazing
Each month we'll be updating the resources below with information from our mob grazing group on a new topic relating to mob grazing.
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Soil health and biodiversity
See videos of mob grazers looking at soil health and wildlife - getting diversity above and below ground.
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Mob grazing for wellbeing
New entrant Katharine Sharp of Achpopuli Farm, Inverness-shire, explains how she planned her farming system around being able to enjoy her work on the farm – and take time away from it! – and how mob grazing has enabled her to do that.
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Why one farming couple started mob grazing
James and Nikki Yoxall share how the mob grazing group has been a great source of information and support as they started mob grazing their own herd.
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Benchmarking the benefits
How does mob grazing benefit biodiversity? Our new operational group will be benchmarking the benefits of regenerative grazing over the next six months. Find out more about what the project involves.
Join the community
Our farmers are sharing regular updates on their day-to-day mob grazing practice.
You can keep on top of everything that's going on by joining our Mob Grazing Scotland Facebook group to get support and advice from other mob grazers.