Bignor Farms

Will Tupper

I farm in partnership with my father (Tom) and wife (Lisa). We manage around 2,000 acres in the heart of the SDNP under a variety of different tenancies, contract farming agreements and owned land. The farm is predominantly arable and sheep with a number of diversifications including Bignor Roman Villa. We have been long term supporters of agri-environmental schemes and have recently become an SFI Pilot farm.

Marshalls Farm

Jeremy Way

Marshalls Farm is a 330 cow dairy farm near Kirdford, West Sussex, over 312 hectares of tenanted land which the Lywood family have been managing for three generations. In 2021 the farm converted to organic status. The aim is to grow as much forage as possible for the cows on the farm using different crops to cope with both wet and dry weather conditions, such as herbal leys for grazing and red clover silage leys. All milk produced is sold to Arla, a dairy co-operative.

Keyfox Farm

Mark Chandler

Keyfox Farm is part of G Chandler Farming Ltd and was taken on in 2022 on a 15 Year Farm Business Tenancy. The 240 hectare farm is a silty clay loam and is predominantly arable. An extensive rotation sees the inclusion of Mid-Tier Stewardship alongside arable to try and optimise soil organic matter improvements. The farm is being baselined as part of the tenancy agreement with organic matter, nutrients, soil health indicators and carbon stocks so we can measure and quantify the improvements that are made during the course of the tenancy to help achieve our wider NetZero ambitions.

Cowdray Farms

Barney Tremaine

Cowdray Home Farms is the in-hand farming business of Viscount Cowdray on the Cowdray Park Estate near Midhurst and is part of a larger widely diversified estate. Covering 1280ha we grow a range of combinable and forage crops in rotation. We are on a journey to use conservation agriculture techniques to integrate the livestock into the arable rotation and benefit the wider environment. We currently milk 320 cows, a summer block calving herd of high health Holstein Friesians supplying M&S. We have a mix of soil types from sand to clay and I want to increase soil health, resilience and fertility to help reduce artificial fertiliser usage and improve our environmental impact.

Kilsham Farm

Phil & Liz Andreozzi

Kilsham Farm near Petworth is a mixed farm of 125 hectares consisting of arable cropping and a flock of 300 Sheep, with land in Countryside stewardship. The River Rother runs along the Eastern boundary of the farm with water meadows along its length. The land is predominantly light sand/gravel. There is no set rotation. Crops of winter wheat and spring barley are grown, with grass leys used as a break and forage crops sown after harvest. The sheep flock aid fertility building before spring crops and Lucerne is grown for its protein rich silage and drought tolerance.

Fitzleroi Farm

Julia Gadd

The Gadd family have been farming Fitzleroi & Bigenor Farms since the early 1930’s with my grandfather Alfred Gadd taking on the tenancy. My late father Richard Gadd subsequently purchased the farm from Leconfield Estate in the early 1970s continuing to farm until his passing in 2015. Having grown up at Fitzleroi and spent many years working along side my father, I continue the farming operations as the third generation with my husband and a local contractor. In addition we also run various diversifications enterprises. The farm is approx 270 ha situated in the South Downs National Park and the soil type is predominately a sandy loam.