Like most farms across the country, Greenfield Farm is returning to normality following Storm Emma.
As expected, snow and wind disrupted normal operations of the farm.
Additional help was brought on to the farm on Friday to support the farm manager and staff in getting cows milked and both cows and calves fed.
For the last three years in February, cows have been milked once a day to ease pressure on cows and staff.
Milking twice a day has resumed on the farm and the milking cows were out grazing on Monday night.
Like most farms across the country, Greenfield Farm is returning to normality following Storm Emma.The milk has been collected, although the lorry got stuck briefly in the yard and needed a bit of help to get away.
Unfortunately two cows and six calves from the herd of 365 cows were lost during the period of the Met Eireann status red weather warning on the farm.
The weather conditions last Thursday night were unprecedented and caused enormous hardship on many farms, Greenfield included, at one of the most critical times of the year for dairy farms.
For a full Greenfield update and coverage of Storm Emma, see this week’s Irish Farmers Journal.
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Like most farms across the country, Greenfield Farm is returning to normality following Storm Emma.
As expected, snow and wind disrupted normal operations of the farm.
Additional help was brought on to the farm on Friday to support the farm manager and staff in getting cows milked and both cows and calves fed.
For the last three years in February, cows have been milked once a day to ease pressure on cows and staff.
Milking twice a day has resumed on the farm and the milking cows were out grazing on Monday night.
Like most farms across the country, Greenfield Farm is returning to normality following Storm Emma.The milk has been collected, although the lorry got stuck briefly in the yard and needed a bit of help to get away.
Unfortunately two cows and six calves from the herd of 365 cows were lost during the period of the Met Eireann status red weather warning on the farm.
The weather conditions last Thursday night were unprecedented and caused enormous hardship on many farms, Greenfield included, at one of the most critical times of the year for dairy farms.
For a full Greenfield update and coverage of Storm Emma, see this week’s Irish Farmers Journal.
Read more
21 weanlings killed as snow blown into shed
In pictures: 'destruction' as sheds buckle under snowfall on Wexford farm
Farmers begin to count the cost of Storm Emma
Nine sheep rescued after being buried alive in Wicklow
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