Joanne Hanifin

Denis O’ Sullivan (20) hails from an agricultural background and studies food marketing and entrepreneurship at University College Cork (UCC).

Sean Moloney is a BSc (Hons) Sustainable Farm Management and Agribusiness degree programme in the Institute of Technology Carlow, Wexford campus.

Áine Corkery studies agricultural science at UCD and runs a suckler-beef enterprise with her family in Co. Cork.

Sixth-generation farmer, Emily McGowan, studies agri-food business with marketing at Harper Adams University while running a 500-strong sheep farm and her own farm shop in Killinchy, Co. Down.

Butch Wherritt, a fourth-generation farmer, farms 1,200 beef cattle on 4,500-acres in Western Oklahoma; he also runs a swathing business.

Joanne Hanifin writes about livestock mart's transition to online sales to facilitate the trade of livestock, cattle and sheep, during Covid-19.

Joan Nagle is an 80-year-old woman in agriculture.

19-year-old Joanne Hanifin writes about her intentions to study Animal Science at UCD.

Rebecca Ryan, 21, studied childcare after her Leaving Cert, but later studied a level 5 certificate in agriculture at Ballyhaise Agricultural College, before beginning a level 6 in dairy herd management.

Holly O’Connell missed out on Ireland’s only veterinary medicine course by five CAO points, took a gap-year and now studies in Budapest.