Barryroe Co News Today

2023 HAS been another incredibly busy year in West Cork, with plenty of highs and lows experienced across the community and all of it reported on in the pages of this newspaper.Jackie Keogh, Kieran O’Mahony, Martin Claffey and Siobhán Cronin have compiled a news review of the

BY MARTIN CLAFFEYA NEW initiative by farmers in West Cork is giving children from local schools a taste of the real farm life.The pilot farm visit scheme, which has been backed by Carbery, is seeing eight schools from across West Cork get an opportunity to experience of what tru

It would be “absolutely immoral” for the Department of Agriculture to require farmers to cull up to 40,000 in-calf cows in line with a looming cut to the Nitrates Derogation, Barryroe Co-Op board vice chairman John O’Brien has warned.

Higgins also criticised the EU for promoting a “US style” of agriculture addressing the National Ploughing Championships.

THE ninth annual West Cork Farming Awards have been launched with nominations now invited for consideration from the community.The awards, which celebrate and champion the local agri-sector are following a different format this year. Launching the Farming Awards were Neil Grant,