Data-driven Cork beef farmer reaping benefits of a scientific approach
A cow and her calf in a pen on Cork farmer Ger McSweeney's farm outside Millstreet "The margins were not there at what I was doing part-time, selling calves as weanlings. Only the few very good ones were making money, mostly Limousin calves. So I took the chance to look at the whole thing. "From a science point of view, things were improving off farm, with the Better Farm Programme. I had a lot of interest in it and was lucky to get involved in back in 2018 and that really helped focus the mind." In 2018 when Ger went farming full-time, he had just over 30 cows in the herd, which he had been ...
Source: independent.ie