Tag: Suckler Focus

Farming 30 sucklers with ‘no costly housing, labour or machinery expenses’

‘Relatively new and latecomer’ to suckling aiming to farm 60 cows

‘To make the average industrial wage, you need 1,000 lambs for €40,000’

‘The key to suckler farming in the future will be efficiencies and quality of stock’

‘My dream is to farm 60 pedigree Shorthorn and Angus suckler cows’

‘In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take’

‘My goal is to be one of the top pedigree and commercial farmers in Ireland’

‘I think suckler farmers are rewarded for quality but not to a high enough level’

How these suckler farmers are ‘cutting out the middleman’

‘For traditional suckler farmers, costs are high, yet return on sales are generally low’