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Farmers participating in the Dairylink Ireland project met with programme sponsors and partners on Friday for the official launch of phase two of the initiative.
Dairylink is a farm development programme, with participating farmers located on both sides of the Irish border.
Optimise resources
There are six farmers in the first phase of the programme and another six have joined for phase two.
Dairylink is supported by Lakeland Dairies, MSD Animal Health, CAFRE, AFBI, Teagasc and the Irish Farmers Journal.
The aim of the programme is to optimise on-farm resources to maximise profits from sustainable milk production.
Dairylink participants are farming in different geographical locations across a range of land types and climatic conditions
“In the first six months, we have established what resources are available on your farms and found out what you are good at,” Dairylink Ireland adviser Conail Keown said at the official launch on Friday.
Variation
Dairylink participants are farming in different geographical locations across a range of land types and climatic conditions.
Farmers also operate various types of dairying systems, from grass-based block spring-calving herds to fully-housed year-round calving systems.
Updates from programme farms feature in the print of edition of the Irish Farmers Journal each week, with the articles and video content available online at www.ifj.ie/dairylink.
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