The matriarch and inspirational women

Inspiring one young woman has a snowball effect and filters down to inspire many more, writes Irish Examiner Farming columnist Paula Hynes.
The matriarch and inspirational women

Georgie Hynes clipping her jersey heifer Rathard Chocochip Dream

As spring finally arrived, so did more new life on the farm, but this calf was a little bit special.

Alanna is a real matriarch cow in the herd, she commands respect from the other cows and rightly so as she has completed nine full lactations. Between daughters and granddaughters, she has 12 descendants going through the parlour and she even became a great great granddam this spring. 

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