Tag: young farmer

Father-and-son duo fetching up to €6,000 for commercial suckler weanlings

‘You have to be able to see the faults in your own stock’

Male (21) killed in tractor accident

Joe Melody: Farming a 180-cow dairy herd and 20 pedigree sucklers

‘Don’t be a busy fool’ – 24-year-old 335-cow dairy farmer

‘Once in a generation’ 81-acre fattening farm with entitlements and road frontage

‘It is important for us to get plenty of heifer calves’ – 275-cow farmer

‘I try to breed roans too, but it is all about luck’

Sons’ desire to farm driving cow numbers to 250 on Meath farm

Young farmer turns long-term goal into reality