Two students from St Brogan’s College, Bandon, tell Tommy Moyles that Irish farmers don’t know enough about producing low emissions beef but they are open to learning. Sarah Teape and Alison Darcy have carried out extensive research into the attitudes of farmers towards climate action and their knowledge of low-emission […]
For the first time in my lifetime, there’s been a TB reactor on the farm: Two of them. It’s disappointing, but all I can do now is go through the process involved and hope it works out. As a result, the herd is now locked up. That doesn’t mean myself […]
Describe the farm? Ronald: We’re Lisavaird co-op milk suppliers with the milk going to Carbery. My father used to supply winter milk to Carbery on a Baileys Crème Liqueur contract in the late 70s and 80s and then when that finished we were supplying Milltown farm for a while. Around […]
Some of the broader aspects of the next CAP were announced by the Taoiseach and Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalouge ahead of the October bank holiday. It offered some bit of clarity and came days after the details of carbon budgets, which are targeting emission cuts in the region of […]
The saying ‘a wet and windy May fills the barns with straw and hay’ has indeed lived up to it’s billing. Weather has held up well through September and grain was harvested in good conditions. This, on top of a solid grass-growing spell in August and September, should stand farmers […]
A West Cork Farming Life: Victor Sprake and Deborah Ní Chaoimhe, Camus Farm, Ardield, Clonakilty Tell us about Camus farm…what does it consist of? We moved down from Kildare and bought the 30-acre farm here about 15 years ago and began converting it into an organic farm. We’re certified with […]