Teagasc guide for farm partnerships available

Teagasc has produced a guide for farmers interested in establishing farm partnerships, as part of the organisation’s broader campaign to promote a variety of collaborative farming ventures.

The guide highlights numerous benefits associated with farm partnerships, ranging from improved financial performance to enhanced quality of life and safety, found in a three-year study of Irish partnerships of fathers and sons, neighbouring farmers, brothers, brothers-in-law, mothers and sons, fathers and daughters, and husbands and wives.

“Farm partnerships can be established to accommodate a wide variety of circumstances, needs, preferences and aspirations,” said Teagasc sociologist Dr Áine Macken-Walsh. They have enabled farmers to maintain the value and style of family farming, while achieving additional scale and expertise for more profitable and sustainable farming.