February 20, 2021, 6:00 am
Farming just outside Lobinstown in Co. Meath you’ll find the Evans family – Gordon and his four sons Conor, Harry, Sam and Ryan. The family operate a spring-calving dairy system on 108ha, with 200 cows due to calve over the coming weeks.
AgriLand spoke with Harry, who is currently in third year of the sustainable agriculture course in DKIT. Harry and his brothers are the fourth generation on the farm.
Harry is also involved with the DKIT ag society that recently raised €6,360 for Pieta House, North Louth Hospice and Home Care.
He said: ”We operate a spring-calving dairy system with a small bit of beef, my dad is in charge of the day-to-day running of the farm with mam in charge of the most important part, the finances.
UK government helps NWF develop GaN foundry process February 09, 2021 // By Peter Clarke
The UK Research and Innovation agency is supporting the development of a gallium-nitride high electron mobility transistor foundry process for Newport Wafer Fab Ltd.
The project is being coordinated by the Compound Semiconductor Centre Ltd (CSC) and NWF with a plan to deliver a 650V GaN-on-silicon HEMT process for implementation with 200mm-diameter wafers.
The epitaxial process makes use of intellectual property developed by CSC in partnership with IQE. The project is supported by UKRI under the Automotive Transformation Fund although the amount of funding was not disclosed. This is an exciting step towards NWFs vision of becoming a major manufacturer of compound-on-silicon products. We see the wide bandgap power device market as an excellent area to address in our plans to expand our current manufacturing footprint of 8,000 wafer starts per week to 14,000, and
AS the Welsh rugby team got off to a winning start to the Six Nations, Wales farming community was celebrating its very own Five Nations victory. During January staff from the Farmers’ Union of Wales and FUW Insurance Services Ltd joined teams from five nations to inspire rural communities to take to the countryside to help improve their mental health. The challenge, #Run1000, also raised money for Pembrokeshire-based rural mental health charity the DPJ Foundation. The event called on people to join either England, Ireland, Scotland, or Wales and the rest of the world, to see which team could run or walk 1,000 miles first.
The property offers 1,657 square feet of loving space hidden behind a tall fence on a canyon street. The open plan living, dining and kitchen space has a vaulted and beamed ceiling.