Unwillingness to pay for good advice can backfire on farmers
Cork born, based in Castledermot, Co Kildare, he works 2,000 leased acres in several counties.
He told last weekend’s annual conference of the Agricultural Science Association in Waterford that farming will become much more commercially driven. Commodity prices will fluctuate much more, as markets are freed up. “We farmers are going to have to become much more business like and commercial in our approach to farming,” he said. He also predicted that the role of Teagasc - the main source of advice to Irish farmers - will continue to decline in the commercial farmer sector, being replaced by private consultancy.
