Name: Neidpath Farms – Nature and Profitability Workshop
Start: 2025-02-06T10:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-02-06T14:00:00+00:00
Location: Neidpath Farms

$Neidpath Farms \u2013 Nature and Profitability Workshop$

Are you a farmer interested in promoting nature and profitability? If so, this is the workshop for you!
About this Event

Nature and Profitability, the key to Resilient Farming

Join the and for an open discussion into the system at Neidpath, strengths and weaknesses.

Begin with a Farm walk to see the system at Neidpath including Bale Grazing and Johnson Su Bioreactors.

After lunch we will have a session looking into Profitability on a Regeneratively managed Upland Beef and Sheep farm. Talk through the changes over past 4 years, specifically profitability, landscape change, water quality and biodiversity.

Learn about:

Understanding the costs to the business
Infrastructure changes at Neidpath
Cutting out unnecessary costs and inputs
Measuring Profitability some Key KPIs
Importance of Soil Health on profitability
Balance of short term gains and long term resilience

Speaker:

Matt Griffin - After a short time shepherding in the north of England, Matt spent 14 years in New Zealand, where he did holistic management training under renowned livestock farmer Allan Savory. He now manages Neidpath Farms, a large upland livestock operation in the Scottish Borders. He lives on-site and is implementing a holistic, nature-friendly approach. Matt has changed a range of farm practices such as implementing a mob grazing system and creating fungal-rich composts to benefit the soil.

Funded by the NFFN, Queen's University Belfast, and the AFN Network+

Spaces on this workshop are limited, so please cancel your ticket or inform the organiser by email ([email protected]) if you need help cancelling your place.