Conor Halpin

‘I got £28,000 for a Texel ram lamb one day’ – livestock auctioneer

‘We need to see the base milk price getting up to 40c/L’ – 160-cow dairy farmer

25-cow suckler farmer: Focusing on genetics & €3.00/kg for weanlings at 7-months

‘We now source machinery in Norway, France, and Central Europe’ – ag contractor

110 cows, 210ac, 685kgs/MS, up to 10,000L/cow

35-cow farmer breeding Salers ‘with demand like there was never before’

‘Balers have gone up €20,000 from last year alone’

60 Montbéliarde cows, 0 night calving cases and a 6-month winter in Mayo

‘I made a loft in one of my sheds; I could not see myself selling wool for 20c/kg’

‘A suckler cow cap would be disastrous’