Teagsasc encourages farming collaboration
19/01/2013 Website News

These arrangements include formal farm partnerships; share farming arrangements, contract livestock rearing, long term land leasing arrangements, producer groups and small cooperatives.
Collaborative farming arrangements such as partnerships allow farmers, in a structured way, to pool their land, facilities, capital, skills and time to be better utilised in productive farming.
Deficiencies in terms of age profile, farm size and skills have been identified in Irish agriculture and these arrangements can help facilitate restructuring of the sector to improve productivity.
Ben Roche, Teagasc Farm Structures Specialist said; �The main benefits of collaborative farming arrangements for farmers are economic, skills and social. They provide the possibility for farmers to increase financial returns through achieving greater scale at lower capital costs while reducing costs which are duplicated on each individual farm. They provide a pooling of skills and labour and can present an opportunity to move away from the �one man farm� model.�
Teagasc Director Professor Gerry Boyle said; �Teagasc are committed to promoting the use of collaborative farming arrangements by farmers. It is proposed to develop a number of regional focused development areas to further promote, farm partnerships, share farming, long term land leasing and contract rearing.�
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