July 25, 2021, 6:00 am
During the week
Agriland paid a visit to an expanding calf-to-beef farm that is really gaining momentum, and this is little wonder when you meet someone with the
enthusiasm and positive attitude towards beef farming as the man at the helm, Charlie Smyth.
Farming 175ac near Killenkere, Co. Cavan, Charlie Smyth took the reigns of his family farm in 2019 when his parents Charles and Noleen stepped back from the beef enterprise.
They now run a free-range poultry unit on an outfarm consisting of 4,420 laying hens.
Charlie and his father Charles out checking stock at their home farm in Lisnahederna
03 March 2021
Type Event Proceeding
On a recent Farm Business Options webinar which took place on Tuesday, 2nd March 2021, host Barry Caslin, Teagasc was joined by Helen Doherty, Social Farming Ireland, to outline what anyone considering running a Social Farm enterprise needs to know.
Two social dairy farmers, John Murphy from Kildinan, Co. Cork and Jennifer Payne from Tulsk, Co. Roscommon also joined the webinar to give an insight into their experiences to date.
A Q&A session took place at the end of the webinar.
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Meet Ireland s Social Farmers
Updated / Thursday, 10 Dec 2020
13:17
Conal Keane, Matthew McGauran and Niall O Beirne are three young men with a lot in common: They’re passionate about farming, have a keen eye for a good cow and they all have Down Syndrome.
Thanks to Social Farming Ireland, they’ve spent the last 10 weeks working on an organic beef farm in their home county of Leitrim. And they’ve loved every minute of it.
Micéal Heslin runs his farm in the pretty townland of Gortletteragh. The boys’ hours were spent tending to geese, feeding and caring for some beautiful Aubrac cattle and helping to erect fencing. all interspersed with cups of hot tea and steaming bowls of beef stew.