Tag: Suckler Focus

‘We only generate income between August and December and claim no subsidies’

‘More than half of my animals will grade Es’

‘It has to be operated like a business’ – 40-cow suckler farmer

‘What we are looking at is to aim for the €1,000 bull weanling’

Breeding pedigrees, working full-time with FRS and juggling life as a parent of 6

Chartered accountant and father farming 65 sucklers on part-time basis

Suckler farmer out-wintering cattle and using no meal

Finnegan family breeding Simmentals for nearly 40 years

‘If consumer trends continue then the small butcher’s future is bright’

‘One labour unit can easily cope with 100 suckler cows if the females are right’