Prof Pat Dillon: Innovation is key to future farm profits

Farmers have to be incredibly innovative for their business to develop and prosper. Innovation is defined as ‘renewing, changing or creating more effective processes, products or ways of doing things’.

Farmers are always looking for new and better ways to do things and this was evident at the recent Teagasc National Dairy Conferences in Cork and Mullingar where Irish farmers and a New Zealand farming couple spoke about their own farming operations.

In dairy farming, Ireland has a comparative advantage to grow grass and to utilise this grass effectively to produce milk.