Gerald Kelly wins top prize at Malting Barley Awards
The awards acknowledge excellence in malting barley production and promote supply chain sustainability. There are over 600 barley growers in Ireland.
Mr Kelly has been growing the cereal for 47 years in Wilkinstown, Camross, Co Wexford. He won the Guinness Perpetual Cup for Malting Barley Excellence, which has been awarded annually since 1954.
He said: “As a third generation barley grower I take huge pride knowing that the product that we grow goes on to be part of this great brewing tradition.”
The Irish drinks industry spends over €400m on raw materials from farms across Ireland every year, a relationship that supports 5,000 farming families.
