The sporty Kingstons are fit for farming and for milking 450 cows every day

With so much talk about post-quota dairy expansion and large scale dairy units which have hundreds of cows, there are fears for the future of Ireland’s family farm model.
The sporty Kingstons are fit for farming and for milking 450 cows every day
Thu, 20 Nov, 2014 - 00:00
Jason Webb

How fit would you have to be to run that farm?

A dairy farm family at Nohoval, Co Cork, the Kingstons are the recent winners of the RTÉ TV show, Ireland’s Fittest Family.

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