Farming - West Cork People

Sustainable food to sustain us

WCP Staff March, 2022

Last year farming couple Clive and Carolyn Buttimer took the big step of setting up Clonakilty Beef; a sustainable business that sells Angus and Hereford beef directly from their Ballinascarthy farm to consumers. Clonakilty Beef sells a variety of frozen beef cuts in boxes that fit snugly into your freezer […]

Getting into full swing

Tommy Moyles March, 2022

As bad as the weather has been since the arrival of Storms Dudley and Eunice, in an odd way I’m kind of glad. Weather has been unseasonably good since Christmas and I’m happier getting rough weather now rather than in the middle of May. Sometimes in farming you have to […]

Charity livestock sale at Bandon Mart to raise funds for Breakthrough Cancer Research in memory of West Cork farmer

WCP Staff February, 2022

The heartbroken wife of a passionate West Cork farmer, who sadly lost his life to an aggressive form of brain cancer, is organising a farming fundraiser at Bandon Mart on Easter Monday in his memory. All proceeds will be donated to Breakthrough Cancer Research, who will invest the funds in […]

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Bandon Students at this year’s BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition urge Irish farmers to change farm practices and reduce their carbon footprint

Tommy Moyles January, 2022

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 […]

Success is finding the positive

Tommy Moyles December, 2021

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 […]

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A West Cork Farming Life: Ronald and Brian Shorten, Woodfield Clonakilty

Tommy Moyles November, 2021

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 […]

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