Experienced Dairy Couple Seeking Land for a Small-Scale Dairy, Shropshire
Experienced Dairy Couple Seeking Land for a Small-Scale Dairy, Shropshire
Erin and her partner Ed are looking for a long-term opportunity to start a micro-dairy in the Shropshire area. They are working towards starting an enterprise which prioritises short supply chains, welfare, and provides opportunities for education and community involvement.
Between them, they have 22 years of experience in the dairy industry. They both have great knowledge and skills in stockmanship, machinery and maintenance, and Erin is experienced and savvy with her paperwork. They are both employed to manage the dairy cows on an 800-acre estate, but are looking to find something smaller, willing to look at sites upwards of 30 acres.
The couple are passionate about small-scale dairy, allowing a focus on direct sales, and an ability to pay attention and care to how their forms of production. They plan to produce milk as well as value-added yoghurts, milkshakes and ice creams, and hope to offer open-farm events to diversify income. They plan to sell locally and have extensive knowledge around sales opportunities such as county shows, food festivals, and village fayres in the Shropshire area.
Erin did not come from a farming background, and is interested in sharing the stories of where food comes from with others in her position. She has experience with outreach and networking through attending agricultural events, and facilitates the Women In Dairy Shropshire Discussion group. With Ed also well-networked in the farming space locally, they are both passionate about communicating to external audiences and ultimately making a valuable contribution to society as well as the dairy industry.
The couple are open to what is available within a land offer, but would find it useful to have existing infrastructure, such as animal housing, containers or a soiled water system. Some form of road access would be important for their ability to sell from the farm gate – and a footpath running through could be ideal.
Erin and Ed are forward-thinking and have already been researching and experimenting with technologies which could reduce the need for infrastructure on the land, such as mobile parlours and virtual fencing collars.
This couple is seeking an opportunity that could provide them with the land and grounding they need to make a start with their new enterprise, using their ideas and experience to contribute meaningfully to the UK dairy industry.
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