Barney O'Kane shares the ups and downs in his stockmen career
Background? It stems from exactly the same as most men and woman in farming today ... I was born into it. My father, John, was a mountain farmer in the townland of Meencraig, in the north of Ireland, where I grew up with my siblings and I worked the farm after school. My father in those days ran a mixture of cattle and sheep and although rearing a large family of 16, I was the only one to follow him into farming. I worked alongside him until I was offered a job at a local farm with B Mullan and Sons, in 1977, before I became a full time self-employed freelancer in 1995 contracted to b...
Source: thescottishfarmer.co.uk