Dairy
Robert English and his father Mervyn recently converted to dairy after previously operating a beef and sheep enterprise.
Today we will be taking a look back at a recent dairy conversion we visited on a blustery day back in March.
The cost of buying dairy stock, or rearing such stock, can often be underestimated and farmers can run into cash-flow problems.
In five years this farm was transformed from a beef, sheep and tillage enterprise, to milking over 200 cows through three Lely robots.
Situated right on the coast of the Irish sea, Ben Mooney and his son Robin are dairy farming in an area many farmers would only dream of.
Since the removal of milk quotas in 2015, there has been increased interest in milk production as a career amongst existing drystock farmers.
