The financial cost of feeding livestock silage compared to grass is around double, then add the additional labour of bedding, cleaning and opening bales or lifting silage out a clamp.
Farm vets are usually on the farm when things are not going well and we meet farmers on their worst days and many times we are that person that the farmer opens up to.
It follows the successful piloting of a similar non-profit project by Burrenbeo in Clare and Mayo that resulted in the creation of 125 ponds, 200 orchards and 175 native mini-woodlands.