Flexible beef system protects farmer against price volatility

摘要

Aflexible beef production system on a North Yorkshire farm is offering some protection against volatile cereal prices and helping to improve cashflow.Home-grown barley is the principal ingredient in the beef cattle diet at Dromonby farm, Kirkby, Cleveland. For the past eight years, Tom Seymour and his father John have kept 250 head at any one time on the 240ha mixed farm, which also carries a large flock of North Country Mules.