Soil Association Scotland Organic Producer Board Member
Chris has been farming organically in North-East Scotland for the past 15 years and was 2024’s Young Organic Farmer of the Year.
He runs a 250ha integrated arable and livestock system producing organic oilseed rape, winter wheat, oats, spring barley, spring barley & peas and forage rye.
The livestock includes 400 breeding ewes and 85 suckler cows all progeny finished on farm, with all rations produced on farm including protein from peas which are companion cropped with spring barley.
Chris believes the cattle, sheep and arable enterprises all work together in symbiosis, and it wouldn’t be possible to grow the crops without the manure from the finishing cattle.
