Traditional farming values create positive future for family farm

摘要

Tradition and the generations of family that have farmed before him, in the heart of Dartmoor, are clearly at the centre of all activities for Robert Jordan, the NSA South West Ram Sale Chairman, who is part of the family team at Moortown Farm, basednear Chagford in Devon.He farms in partnership with his wife Rebecca and brother and sister-in-law David and Hannah. Together they represent the fourth generation of the Jordan family to manage a varied mix of sheep breeds on the upland combination of in-bye farmland and common grazing.They have a variety of breeds to provide the farm with diversity in its options for selling - a factor that could prove invaluable with potential change around the corner for the UK sheep sector.