Drovers Agreements
For grazing to take place under the Drovers Project, an agreement was drawn up between
- Northumberland National Park Authority (the Drovers Project)
- the landowner
- and the grazier – i.e. the owner of the cattle due to graze the site.
In some cases the landowner and grazier were the same person, but generally the agreement was a three-way contract.
The Drovers Agreements specifed the details of the grazing for each site, including details such as:
- the type of livestock (i.e. breed)
- the stocking density
- the length of the grazing period – start and end dates
- responsibilities of each of the parties for the management of the site
The agreement also set out the monitoring aspects for each site, including livestock movement and vegetation monitoring recordings.
Drovers Project Conservation Grazing Sites
There were six sites grazed under Drovers Agreements:
