NSA Welsh Sheep will be held at Ty Draw, Llanasa, Holywell, CH8 9NE. kind permission ofMathew Roberts and family.
Mathew farms his father David, wife Sian and three children. They farm around 600 acres. The farming system is based around beef and sheep, one that earned the Roberts family the NFU Cymru/NFU Mutual Welsh Livestock Champion of the Year Award 2024.
Lamb is produced from a flock of 1,450 Texel-cross and Suffolk cross ewes, tupped with Texels and Beltex-cross rams. Herbal Leys, red clover and attention to detail play a big part in the farming system
NSA Welsh Sheep 2027 will offer a professional update and the latest industry information.
NSA NORTHSHEEP 3 JUNE 2027
3 Jun 2027
Marriforth Farm, Thornton Steward, Wensleydale, on Wednesday 2nd June 2027, kindly hosted by the Fairburn family.
The EasyCare Sheep Society will be there. The EasyCare sheep on the stand will be kindly provided by Graham Shepherd, Preston
Marriforth Farm is a progressive multi-generational farming business run by three generations of the Fairburn family - the late Granville and wife Liz, son Paul and wife Marion, and the next generation, Pippa and Henry. The family’s connection with the farm stretches back more than 70 years, with Granville moving there as a child before the family purchased the holding in the early 1960s.
The business includes 460 acres (190ha) of owned land, 750 acres (300ha) of rented ground and almost 3,000 acres (1200ha) of rough grazing, running around 3,500 breeding ewes across Swaledale, mule and pedigree flocks. The family also grows 100 acres (40ha) of winter and spring barley alongside the sheep farming operation.
