From farming simulator to YouTube farming superstar

Philip Stewart, otherwise known as ‘Farmer Phil’, has been using an app to simplify and speed up certain jobs on the farm that in times gone by would have taken an age to do.

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FARM SMART: Technology driving efficiency on a suckler to dairy conversion

Farming on the Tipperary/Kilkenny border in Ballingarry, Co. Tipperary, John Fennelly, and his wife Ciara, are new dairy entrants who, up until 2014, were operating a suckler enterprise along with

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FARM SMART: Modernising and digitalising dairy farm management in Lockerbie, Scotland

Scottish dairy farmer, George Booth, lives and works on his family farm in Lockerbie after moving up from North Yorkshire in 2006. He is a fourth-generation dairy farmer but his family had been

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Farm Smart: From Farm to Fork with Suffolk Food Hall

Oliver Paul is a fifth generation suckler farmer with a family background in agri-business, originally in feeds & malts and now diversifying into the award-winning Suffolk Food Hall. Here, Oliver

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FARM SMART: Saving time on farm paperwork in Kanturk

North Cork Creameries supplier Donal Lehane, along with Thomas McAuliffe, milk 100 pedigree Holsteins in Kanturk and have been using the Herdwatch farm management app to reduce farm paperwork and

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FARM SMART: Taking the stress out of running a family and a pedigree herd

Helen Parr and her partner Dan, live in Cambridgeshire and have 170 head of cattle on 390 acres of grass. The majority are Pedigree Herefords.

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FARM SMART: balancing life as a suckler farmer and AI technician

Farming in Rhode, Co. Offaly, Tom Groome is a suckler farmer with 115 animals. Tom also works with Dovea Genetics as an AI Technician so has to use his time wisely.
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Calves registered before the kettle is boiled

Denis Burke is a dairy farmer from Kilmaine Co. Mayo. This west of Ireland farmer milks 130 spring calving Friesian cows. Denis would openly admit he is not the best when it comes to technology.

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Andy Broomfield was fed up with farm paperwork, then he found a simple solution from Herdwatch

We caught up with Andy a few weeks ago to discuss what he is up to and how he is getting on with Herdwatch. Andy, his wife, and his 2 children, live and work on their dairy farm in Devon along with

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Removing the paperwork on this 260-head finishing unit in Co. Derry

Farming in Dungiven, Co Derry, Derek and Jennifer Glenn run a beef finishing operation on approximately 200ac of land, bringing Limousin, Charolais and Aberdeen Angus heifers and bulls through to

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