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Robert made arrangments with AIBP at Nenagh for the slaughtering and export of Hereford beef.
“The first few cattle that were slaughtered and sent did very well, and the scheme for Irish Hereford Prime was launched in 1997 with six cattle per week being slaughtered,” Joe says.
“In the first year he got a major award for the beef in France and that really gave him the lift to get it going, and it has never looked back.”
The market has grown to an average of 1,000 cattle per week and Irish Hereford Prime has become an added-value brand, delivering worth to Irish breeders and producers.
Paris got cookin , and our salmon was one of the stars!
Bord Bía (the Irish Food Board) in France invited a few Instagram influencers to get cooking with chef Gilles Bellot. They were provided some Irish ingredients, like Gunpowder Gin by The Shed Distillery, steaks from Irish Hereford Prime, Cashel Blue, our Burren Smoked Irish Organic Salmon and Butlers Chocolates, and then got busy.
Chef showed them on zoom how to cook or serve the ingredients, and they got cooking alongside him on the other side of the screen. Way to go these days!
The influencers then shared their stories and posts, and though the pictures are all very different (and wonderfully so), what came across from all of them was the sheer joy of eating those delicious, authentic Irish foods and tasting the gin.
Robertstown man is named Hereford farmer of the year
Top quality: Rugby fan Richard farms 64 hectares of land in partnership with his dad Henry
6 Jan 2021
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Richard Milligan, who farms in partnership with his father Henry near Robertstown, has been awarded the 2020 Irish Hereford Prime Farmer of the Year award.
The Milligans farm approximately 24 hectares of grassland around the yard and a further 40 hectares nearly two miles away, some of which is in tillage.
Richard studied at Harper Adams Agricultural college in the UK and after graduation took up a number of farm manager jobs, predominantly on tillage farms, giving him a strong broad range of experience to bring home to the family farm.
Irish Hereford Prime Farmer of the Year 2020 Richard Milligan
The winner of the 2020 Irish Hereford Prime Farmer of the Year award has been revealed as Co. Kildare farmer Richard Milligan.
Richard farms in partnership with his father Henry near Robertstown in Co. Kildare. The family farms approximately 24ha of grassland around the yard and a further 40ha nearly two miles away, some of which is in tillage.
Richard highlighted that he appreciates the on-farm support he receives from Irish Hereford Prime and is fully supportive of the recent Hooves4Hospice campaign “as it’s such an important worthwhile cause and the calendar produced to raise funds is a great way to showcase Hereford farmers”.