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SHARING OPTIONS: The economic return of young farmers is to be looked at as part of a new PhD. \ Philip Doyle. Macra has launched a new Walsh fellowship PhD with Teagasc which will investigate the economic return of young farmers. Announcing the new fellowship, outgoing Macra president Thomas Duffy told the association’s AGM on Saturday that Macra has always been to the forefront in calling for action but also giving its own commitments. “That’s why I’m very proud to announce that Macra will be partnering with Teagasc to promote an area which has been unfortunately overlooked. “We will be launching a Walsh fellowship, a PhD, to investigate the economic return of young farmers. ....
Young farmers' organisation Macra na Feirme has outlined its position in a document on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) "Green Architecture" and set ....
SHARING OPTIONS: Thomas Duffy, Macra na Feirme president insisting that beef is not the new tobacco on a UN Food Systems Summit in the RDS. An accusation that beef was the “new tobacco” of the world that caused health issues was flatly rejected by Macra na Feirme president Thomas Duffy. Duffy was speaking in response to the statement made by Dr Colin Wage, an independent scholar of food systems and sustainability, during a United Nations Food Systems Summit held in the RDS on Tuesday 4 May. “In reality we know that beef does have a very positive nutritional contribution and it’s a vital source of high-quality iron,” Duffy said. ....
Kathleen Duffy Co. Cavan woman Kathleen Duffy is logging out this week, as she retires after 24 years working with Irish Farm Computers on Herdmaster, AgriNet Grass and more recently HerdAPP, on software support. Mother of outgoing Macra na Feirme president Thomas Duffy, she has assisted in the running of the renowned Virginia Show for the past 25 years, and was involved in the setting up and running of the €1 million show centre which opened in 2014. She lives outside Virginia, and farms with her husband Ned, as well as Thomas. Kathleen, who has a B.Sc. Honours degree in rural development and a postgraduate higher diploma in adult and community education, remembers the beginning of farm software, back in the late 1990s. ....