NDC quality milk award winners

JUDGES found exceptional cleanliness on the farm of Michael and Thomas Enright from Ballynorth, Askeaton, Co Limerick, overall winners of the 2011 National Dairy Council Quality Milk Awards.

The father-and-son team, supplying Kerry Agribusiness, were presented with the NDC perpetual cup and €5,000 by special guest Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh at the awards ceremony in Dublin’s RDS.

Michael Enright has been building the herd from scratch since his early teens. No milk is supplied in December or January. Seventy two cows were milked in 2010, averaging 5,746 litres (1,260 gallons) at 3.43% protein, 3.92% butterfat, 4.76% lactose, TBC of 7, and SCC of 138.