Dairy
Director of Dairy Industry Ireland, Connor Mulvihill highlighted the importance of young farmers at the first of the Aurivo ‘Your Farm...
N.Ireland
Not enough farm families openly discuss the issue of succession, according to ‘agricultural mentor’ Heather Wildman...
Rural Life
Plans to amend the Nursing Home Supports Scheme also known as the Fair Deal scheme, have been welcomed by the IFA.
Dairy Technical
At the Ballyhaise Dairy Open Day, attendees heard from David and Laura Hannon on how farm succession planning has worked on their farm.
Agri-Business
Teagasc specialist in farm management, Tom Curran, explained the most important factors of a land succession plan.
While the traditional approach to farmers' retirement has been to plough on, a growing number are planning a different kind of future.
Better profitability in agriculture would allow older farmers to retire, creating better farm succession in Northern Ireland, FFA claims.
Some 48% of farmers in the North do not have a succession plan in place with one in five farmers saying they had 'no reason/no good reason' for doing so, a survey has found.
