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29/06/202029/06/2020

Meet dairy farmer, Pat Aherne – an unconventional convert

Meet dairy farmer, Pat Aherne - an unconventional convert Irish conventional dairy farmer, Pat Aherne, (pictured left) has transformed his herd health and fertility whilst reducing antibiotic use through a wholistic approach learned over the last 10 years. He is passionate about a natural health approach to his herd of 100 dairy cows and now …

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13/05/202021/05/2020

Meg’s Musings: Farming In A Pandemic

What strange times we’re in. A pandemic of this magnitude has not been experienced by the globe since Spanish Flu in 1918 and, I think I’m right in saying, that because of the small world connectedness we have nowadays Covid-19 has spread much further, and affected greater numbers.It’s easy to be swept along in the …

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10/03/202021/05/2020

Chicken Goes Cheep or Cheap?

The original “cheep” is a smile-evoking sound if you have ever had the pleasure of hatching eggs in an incubator. What is beautiful, but also surprising for the uninitiated, is that the cheeping starts before the chick has hatched. Chicks hatched in the natural way, under a hen, emerge in spring - the original …

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25/02/202021/05/2020

Meg’s Musings: Weaning; a Wholistic Approach

Reducing Stress at Weaning- A Wholistic Approach There are few events in the farming calendar that we dread; most of the year care of livestock is a pleasure. Ok, the odd difficult calving and lambing spices things up a bit, and the air goes blue when fences are broken, and escapees need to be reunited …

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15/01/202021/05/2020

#ORFC20 Report

A wake-up call is exactly what was needed this year; farming is experiencing unprecedented challenges: climate change, activism, an uncertain economy post Brexit, but maybe the worst it could face is George Monbiot’s dystopian vision: a future where farmers give up their land to ‘re-wilding’, while the role of feeding an ever-increasing populace is hi-jacked …

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04/12/201921/05/2020

Meg’s Musings – Fiercely on the Farmers’ Side

It’s taken me months to get as far as putting my thoughts on paper about this. I am a farmer and farmer’s wife. I’m also passionate about conservation, biodiversity, education, food provenance, sustainability (whatever that’s meant to mean) and above all else, animal welfare. A lot of farms and farmers embrace all these concepts as …

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Meet dairy farmer, Pat Aherne – an unconventional convert

Meg’s Musings: Farming In A Pandemic

Chicken Goes Cheep or Cheap?

Meg’s Musings: Weaning; a Wholistic Approach

#ORFC20 Report

Meg’s Musings – Fiercely on the Farmers’ Side

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