Messer’s J. Mitchell is a family run farming business located at Rumbletonrig, outside the small town of Greenlaw in the Scottish Borders.
The farm comprises of 327 ha, main cropping is grass followed by spring barley and winter wheat. A proportion of the grass area is used for silage production and is clamped for winter feeding. Straw is retained for bedding. The main enterprise is beef production as well as some sheep; there are currently 300 suckler cows and 250 breeding ewes.
John and Rhona Mitchell have volunteered to work with SRUC as a Climate Change Focus Farm. Over the three year initiative, we will help them investigate and share practical measures that suit Rumbletonrig to improve farm efficiency and resource use, and in turn reduce the farm carbon footprint.
