Hannah Quinn-Mulligan
@hqmulligan
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Journalist, organic beef & dairy farmer, judge @farmfornature & founder @womensagrigroup . #Herefords /RedHippos
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Thanks to
@thecurrency
for giving me the opportunity to write about
#COVID19
in
#meatfactories
. It's been an uphill battle on many fronts - including getting access to information that always should have been in the public domain.
This time last year, Kildare emerged from a local lockdown triggered by Covid-19 outbreaks at meat factories. Tomorrow, we publish part 1 of a year-long investigation into the causes of continuing infections in the industry and the lenient enforcement regime it has enjoyed.
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When my mother was a 19-yr old English undergrad she overheard girls making fun of her pregnant state. Her lecturer
#BrendanKennelly
found her crying and asked the baby's name she'd chosen (Hannah!) & told her how beautiful it was. His kindness will always be remembered by us.
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Ever seen an apple pie cooked over an open fire? 🍏
Granny's
#COVID19
home project was to build an open fire that could cook her mother's apple pie in a "bastible". It was scrumptious! More on
@RTECountryWide
📻
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1/2) A strange, depressing feeling to be entering into a new CAP cycle, & after all the rhetoric about encouraging farmers to support nature, we're still penalized for having left this large native woodland intact. The Dept of Ag has marked it as ineligible because it's "trees".
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The initial huge outlay for solar panels & a battery stung like hell but look at this! Sent off our actual meter reading to the electric company & we're now in credit! Our whole little beef farm & house running on solar! Keep cackling with delight every time I read the battery %
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👇 This "scrub" is about 8% of our total farmland and is ineligible for any payment. We could have cleared/planted it years ago and been paid but we're lucky enough to live in a SAC and want to keep it that way. Hopefully next CAP recognises this as "productive" farming.
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To anyone who ever thought that women 'couldn't', 'wouldn't' or 'shouldn't' drive tractors, I've spent a fair chunk of the day having to tell women that our first female tractor course is full. I'm honestly angry that it's taken this long to give them the opportunity to learn.
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2/2 It's home to the cuckoo, badgers, red squirrels and a bunch of other wild animals but if I call someone to cut down the trees and drain it, I stand to gain nearly €6000 over this CAP cycle. Despite the habitat value, the financial value to the farm is zero. So wrong.
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This field with bog orchids, meadowsweet and more things pollinators like, is deemed "unproductive" by Department of Ag and ineligible for entitlements. Yet receives payments under the NPWS scheme and is included in a low input grazing plan 🤷♀️ Another example of
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The boss (granny) and her glamorous assistant (me...) are very excited to be part of
#RTEMayDay
tonight! This subtitle sums up a lot of what we're lucky enough to do day-to-day on the farm despite everything that's going on ♥️
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Took a bit of time - two years to be precise - but the farm is finally fully organic certified.
Really looking forward to the next chapter. Thanks to
@IrishOrganicA
and
@TeagascOrganics
for the support and even
@agriculture_ie
for the incentives!
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Amazing scenes in
#Killarney
National Park with volunteers overseen by
@npwsBioData
tackling the invasive rhododendrum 🪓 They've uncovered a new island in the park that was completely overgrown!! Loved interviewing them for
@RTECountryWide
- they even gave me a boat trip 😁
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For nearly one hundred years our Aga has run on coal but this week we converted it to electric.
It was expensive but the cost of doing nothing is more expensive.
#climatechange
is real and by 2025 my aim is to have figured out how to run the farm and house 100% off renewables.
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Was delighted we made hay for the first time in about 20 yrs yesterday. Completely forgot that hay-making smell is basically the smell of summer childhood stacking/messing with square bales 💃 Considering going square next year as round bales have limited fort building abilities.
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This marks my last day with the Farmers Journal. They've become more family than colleagues over the years & I'll miss them. To the farmers who trusted me with their stories ♥️
I'm turning off the phone now & doing a
#clarksonsfarm
with a mini-digger before I get too emotional!
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My friend from Germany is over & giggles everytime I say "Hello Moo Moos" as we check the cattle.
Turns out "Moo Moo" means something very different in German & I've been cheerfully shouting "Hello Vaginas" across my fields for years - but the girls don't seem to mind 😂😅
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Before and after. A considerable amount of time and money with a good dash of stress but we're incredibly proud to have fully restored the 18th century farmyard. Wouldn't have been possible without the Traditional Farm Buildings Scheme from
@HeritageHubIRE
and
@agriculture_ie
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The farmer I had the pleasure of interviewing for
@RTECountryWide
this morning was so interesting that I completely forgot to take any pictures on his farm 🤦🏻♀️📸 Tom Fouhy is growing chickpeas AND lupins for protein feed - could dent the (up to) 2.5m tons of soy we import 🌸🐄
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Could everyone make a conscious effort to stop referring to farmers as "men".
Watching
@OireachtasNews
and just expect a gender neutral reference to farmers by this stage of 2021. Female farmers might only make up 12% but we do exist.
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Despite some family debate we've taken on Mary Reynolds' suggestion (from Tommy Tiernan Show) and cut down on lawn cutting. Wildflowers look great, lawn is buzzing with life and I only have to spend half the time mowing! 🐝🌼
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Banality of evil is a phrase that comes to mind after watching
#RTEInvestigates
. Because what happened to those calves was evil but what's worse is industry leaders, farm orgs, Agri media and politicians who've known about it for years. Loudest shouters now are the ones to watch.
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Amazing crowds here for the annual cattle drive. Considering the fear growing among farmers over public perceptions of the sector,
@farmfornature
&
@BurrenbeoTrust
should get a gold medal for showing the vital role farmers have for the local areas biodiversity through grazing.
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I am ashamed to say I had never seen or heard a Curlew in real life before heading out with the
@npwsBioData
to do a report for
@RTECountryWide
. What was a common farmland bird has seen over a 90% decline since the 1970's. The next generation might never see or hear it.
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1/2 Setting up
@WomensAgriGroup
last year, I never imagined we'd come so far. For the first time in the history of the Irish State we have CAP supports for women. Stepping down is not easy, but I know the group will be in safe hands under the new Chair Dr Edna Curley. Thanks to..
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I am one of those farmers guilty of rushing from one job to the next. Sometimes taking five mins to sit down, listen to the birds, watch the girls graze and remember why we're doing it is the best part of the day.
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Well the cat, or Freisian heifers, are out of the bag on
@RTECountryWide
this morning and I'm really looking forward to being a dairy farmer in the New Year - I expect to get plenty of advice here 😉 Thanks to
@bryanjdaniels
for the new ladies.
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Single ladies on their way to inspect their new beau/bull - if they don't run him over first.
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160 TD's in the Dáil, recent FOI I got back revealed 226
#COVID19
cases in just one meat plant. It was never closed.
One Minister feels unwell = entire cabinet self-isolating & Dáil adjourned for a week.
Workers at meat plant test positive for
#Covid19
= business as usual & tests cancelled.
Welcome to the contradictions of FF/FG in government.
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1) It's been my third year covering Curlew conservation for
@RTECountryWide
. Delighted to finally have some good news with three fluffy chicks successfully fledged thanks to the farmer, locals,
@NPWSIreland
staff and a 2km fence surrounding 50 acres protecting the nest.
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🎅 Granny keeps about 10 geese for
#Christmas
every year. She cooked an early test run for
@RTECountryWide
and I did not complain 😋
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1) "Farmer" is becoming a byword for climate sceptic or climate denier.
Some in the sector are walking themselves into that stereotype but there are plenty of us here actively pouring time, energy and money into making our farms sustainable.
Don't tar
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Ordering hedging and actually planting hedging are two very different things 😅 Busy Sunday as part of
@npwsBioData
Farm Plan Scheme - wild cherry, spindle, blackthorn, whitethorn and something else whose name eludes me at this point in time due to over exertion 😂
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Granny tripped in the yard & dislocated her shoulder a few weeks ago 😔 Very painful & it shook her confidence but she's improving everyday. Others out there will know how something like that can shake a farm family - throws a lot of things in sharp perspective📻
@RTECountryWide
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Speechless ♥️ Thank you to
@AgriGuild
and the judging panel, the
@farmersjournal
team, my little granny and mummy, literally and metaphorically holding my hand at times. We're bringing The Bull home and reckon he's a
#Hereford
#JournalismMatters
🏆
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Hard to say how much of a privilege it was to guest present
@RTECountryWide
for a show. Thank you to the brilliant team in RTÉ, and most of all the listeners. I'm off to feed the cows and put my feet up. Mr
@boucherhayes
is back in the hot seat next week!
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Our
#Hereford
bull sale went so well in Nenagh on Tuesday that Granny is planning on requesting Damien's presence every year as a lucky charm 😉 We've felt very lucky to share some of our farm life with
@RTECountryWide
- hope everyone enjoys this morning's contribution 😊
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New baby this morning. Silver lining to every drought!
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Presenting the first Tory Hill cheese - from grass to cow to milk to inexperienced cheese maker - all on the one farm. It'll be a camembert by Christmas or brie if we can't wait that long!
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Persuaded the boss to abandon the farm work for a day and go dossing by the seaside 💃☀️ Costa del
#Clare
did not disappoint.
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My favourite Betty with her newborn this morning. She was the last lady to calve and was worried she was tempting fate but she popped him out! That's 100% unassisted calving and (touch wood) not a single calf mortality this year. Delighted 😊🙌
#herefords
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Got our first owl box up in the haybarn today 🦉
One of the measures funded under the
@npwsBioData
Farm Plan Scheme.
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After writing about bovine TB & badger vaccinations for years it was a real eye-opener to go out with the Dept & see their work 💉 7,000 badgers were vaccinated last year & here is another (sedated) fella getting his shot this week. Thanks to
@agriculture_ie
&
@RTECountryWide
📻
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The end of lockdown for these ladies. Hopefully we'll all be feeling as high-spirited in a few weeks 🤞
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One little Curlew chick and it's parent! Find out why the Irish population has declined by 96% and how farmers and the
@npwsBioData
are trying to save the population. Report coming up on
@RTECountryWide
📻
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Mink or Pine Marten attack on the ducks. Like a scene from a horror movie, they just can't stop killing once they start. Doesn't matter whether you're 8 or 80, still one of the worst realities to be faced with on the farm.
@RTECountryWide
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My grandmother - who is almost 80yrs old and farming all her life - has just managed to log onto her first CAP consultation by herself 👩💻 I'm delighted for her and terrified for
@agriculture_ie
when she hears the suckler plans 🐮
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1) 17,500 dairy farmers across the country and just 75 are organic. For all the Gov talk about supporting organics most organic dairy feel let down. It was almost impossible to get any on record for
@RTECountryWide
because they're scared of processor...
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A big step onto the telly screen co-presenting a show highlighting the work being done to fight climate change.
Thanks to the brilliant team at Indie Pics and to my family for making sure I always ate breakfast and minding the farm on what has been a fantastic whirlwind!
The
@rte
new climate change series "Heated" starts tonight on
@RTEOne
and
@RTEplayer
at 8pm. Presented by
@hqmulligan
@RonanODalaigh
and
@palaeo_mich
🔥🌊🌞🌲
@indiepicsIE
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I've informed the contractor that pink bales help lift the dull ambience of the farm sheds and he now has a look of fear in his eye like I'm Dermot Bannon suggesting a glass slatted unit. I mean but think of the all-year light 🤷🏻♀️🐮
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The girls grazing in one of the meadows that's part of the grazing plan under
@npwsBioData
. We've been experimenting with mob grazing this year - new to the game but we'll get there. Tons of grass species and butterflies
#farmingfornature
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Seven years ago I was a researcher at the BBC covering the Dawn Chorus. Today I'm reporting on it directly for
@NatureRTE
, celebrating all the wildlife our farm offers with locations across 🇮🇪 and 🇬🇧 Follow your heart - it'll get you back to the place you want to call home 🚜♥️🐦
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Asked gran what she wanted to do for her birthday - "A drive around the Burren and maybe some shopping?" 👍🙈💸
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1/2 People who know me, know I worry about mental health issues in rural communities, especially the suicide rate - 25 farmers take their own lives every year and that's too many. This Saturday we're having a charity bake sale & farm walk - everyone is welcome & Granny is baking
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A true representation of the glamour of radio. Hot water bottle, microphone and thermal layers all part of a seven hour broadcast bringing in the
#DawnChorus
on
@RTERadio1
with the brilliant
@NatureRTE
and teams across Ireland and Wales.
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Over anxious mother on the first day at nursery 😂
Amid all the doom and gloom this week, the calves' first day out is always great to see.
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Finally getting around to making a will and for some reason solicitor looked slightly surprised when I mentioned the value of the Herefords cattle, which are my prized red hippos. Didn't seem at all convinced when I stressed they were pedigree and incomparably beautiful.
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"Asking farmers to plant more trees and reduce livestock seems utterly bizarre when we're planning to import meat from a country that is cutting down rainforests" 🌳
@EddiePunch
@ICSAIreland
at the Climate Adaptation Plan
#mercosur
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One of the reasons why I have to bring two
@farmersjournal
papers home every week. I know better than to squabble with that face!
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Myself & this little legend are nominated for an
@IMRORadioAwards
tonight. It's a great honour to represent
@RTECountryWide
in a talent filled category but even greater to just be there with Granny. 18mths of recording farm life in lockdown & I'd do it again in a heartbeat❤
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Women have always been part of the farming landscape, yet the majority of those women, past and present, are never truly valued for their input and role on farms.
Very proud to stand alongside a number of women changing the narrative in the
@irishtimes
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We started building our first ponds today on the farm as part of the
@npwsBioData
scheme. For some reason feel a bit emotional. We put so much planning into the future of our farms in general but not often we get to see something we've planned for so long take shape in a day.
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Myself and the real boss woman aka Granny, will be on
@RTECountryWide
this morning talking about the conundrum of farming while trying to social distance during the
#coronavirus
pandemic ➡️📻
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The boss got her first
#CovidVaccine
! Granny has been cocooning since last March so was delighted but like many families,
#COVID19
touched our lives too. We recorded the event for
@RTECountryWide
, probably the toughest one yet ❤💔
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Warning - potential builders bum 👀 Not ideal health and safety but calf was breach and needed a hand getting the birth sack off it's head. Summer calving coming like hot potatoes - like they knew it was my week off!
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And finally the last calf is born. Big, beautiful bull calf born outside, unassisted. Big relief after the calving season from hell. Mummy cow chomping away happily, baby calf up and sucking, and overwrought farmer off for a 99 🍦
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My grandmother keeping an eye on hay proceedings last weekend. My cousin was late with the turner and there was a suggestion we should get the pitchforks and turn it by hand...But I think we should make it every year just for the look of glee on her face 💜
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Never seen cows enjoy docks so much, the Herefords won't touch them! Every morning the dairy girls drag their heels to munch the docks so today I just left them to it.
Field was topped a month ago so docks are relatively fresh. Am I missing something
@coolydoody
@KevinoHanlon12
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Not a dairy farmer or a saint but happy
#Februdairy
and
#StBrigidsDay
! Blessed are the milk producers, without them there would have been no butter icing for this cake 🥛🐄🎂
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The fashion industry emits 1.2bn tonnes of emissions annually, more than all international flights and maritime fishing. Plus we now know about the abuse of workers in the "fast fashion" industry in the UK.
But over 275,000 Penneys appointments...
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We should all be concerned. Protest and demonstration is one thing but there were individuals on Thursday night who are more interested in themselves than farmers.
Far-right piggybacking on Irish farmers’ demonstrations.
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Spoiler alert 🚨 The report from
@RTECountryWide
this morning has a happy ending. Two heifer calf twins! Here's Granny administering some extra TLC and making sure they both get enough beestings (colostrum) 🍼
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The oldest Jersey herd in Ireland on
@RTECountryWide
this morning. Great to chat to Ben from
@woodtownjerseys
and find out the benefits of the breed. Also picked up a few smaller Jerseys to add to our own milking herd one day. All tucked up given current temperatures ❄️
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This year looks like a complete washout with serious implications for tillage farmers and others who buy from them. Thanks to those who spoke to me for this piece with the
@IrishTimes
.
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Milked, out full time, zero calves left (bar dairy replacements under nurse cows and the ten left to calve), no bottling milk on weekends - it's midday and I'm done.
#OAD
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Losing a parent suddenly can feel like losing part of your heart, no matter what age you are. Granny and myself did a lot of reflecting for our documentary this year for
@RTERadio1
Thank you to everyone for their warm wishes, we hope it helped.
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My mother and myself just finished planting half a kilometre of hedging.
The team were there to cheer us on for the final few metres 😂
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I was once told that if dogs reflect their owners then I should get a rottweiler. That person (my mother) was wrong. Turns out I'm a mongrel terrier 👌
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A few weeks ago my father passed away suddenly. Granny and myself talked about father/daughter relationships and I really wanted the love her father had for her to become the centre of our radio doc. Loved ones root us & the memory of that love lives on.
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First day back in the Big Shhmoke after four months of joyous rural isolation. Saluted every jeep I met in D4 like culchie shopping day had come early - not so much as a finger waggle back 🥺
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I am proud to the point of happy tears.
@WomensAgriGroup
started last September. It achieved three CAP policies on a budget of €0.
Farm orgs, politicians, civil servants and farmers came together from all walks. Thank you to all of them.
Mná na hÉireann abú!
The start to recognising the very real & valuable contribution women have always made to Irish farms:
- 60% grant for women up to 66yrs of age
- Option of female only Knowledge Transfer Groups
- National Women in Ag Conference
Thanks for all the support - we'll keep pushing 💪
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We're looking at getting solar panels and were advised NOT to get them through TAMS by two solar companies because, despite promises, the paperwork still hasn't been simplified. Really disappointing considering all the farm shed roofs that could be covered ☀️
@RTECountryWide
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Gran's idea of a break after a day spent chasing cattle is putting her feet up and reading about them 😂❤ 🐂
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The view of
#silage23
from my mother's garden.
Second year of 100% organic silage, be interesting to see how many bales we get.
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I see a certain farm org has once again married me off. I applied to them for a divorce the last time but clearly someone was seriously stuck for nitrates again. Couldn't imagine a farm with just a woman on the deeds.
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More than a few farmers might be envious to see
@KevinoHanlon12
's cows out grazing this time of year! Driest farm I've seen in awhile. Kevin is joining the 62 organic dairy farmers in the country. Thanks to him and
@TeagascOrganics
for hosting a great farm walk 👏
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Always sad when big trees that have made up part of the skyline of a farm fall. Grew up passing this giant Ash every day.
#StormJocelyn
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My favouite cow Betty calved this morning, delivering the great-great-great grandson of my first cow Queenie 👑A nice surprise before sitting down at the home office
#herefords
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No one carves as well as her 👌
Lamb from the local butcher who knew exactly what farm it was born & reared. In my old age I'm getting fierce fussy about only eating meat sourced from Ireland. If we're proud of the food we produce we need to support it
#HappyEaster
#supportirish
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"Farmers are the solution not the problem," Brendan Dunford says in his closing remarks
@farmfornature
@BurrenbeoTrust
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1) This Ash tree on the farm is home to countless childhood memories, the place of family picnics and impromptu outdoor fry ups. The fact the tree is dying due to
#AshDieback
breaks my heart. They were memories I wanted to pass to the next generation. Given how deeply rooted...
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I got a letter this week from a farmer in a nursing home paying €990/week in fees. The farmer cared for their mother and aunt into old age but had no kids which means they don't qualify for a Fair Deal "sucessor" & will keep paying €990/week. Intv coming up on
@RTECountryWide
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What does this elected representative think fertilizes oats or other crops in an organic system 🤔
@brianrushe81
Eventually it will move towards 8.3bn L of non-dairy milk. Great business case shown for it in your figures, bravo. As a bonus, no animal faeces is spread into public rivers by farming oats.
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Still sinking in but blown away by the generosity and kindness of family, friends, neighbours and strangers who came to the farm bake sale and nature walk today. We raised over €1,000 in the three hours for charity ❤
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Very important and brave piece by
@HaroldKingston1
this week 👏 Still a lot of stigma around mental health but no farmer should feel like they have to suffer alone.
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Signed up to a beekeeping course to get away from the horrors of the pandemic. What I've learnt
🐝 Wasps will rip the head off a bee to suck the honey out of its stomach
👾 Varroa mite will bite into bees and suck the blood out
🤬 Cranky bees need a new happy Queen or else...
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Can't thank the staff at
@StJohnsHospice
and
@ULHospitals
enough. Xrays, consultant and physio all in one afternoon. The only thing really left to repair is my relationship with this fella.
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mixed messaging to farmers. The debate around emissions the past week has been infuriating. A media narrative has been created stereotyping all farmers as narrow minded and inarticulate, and when given the opportunity, Ag representatives have fallen into instead of challenging
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