Bryan Hynes
Models for managing multiple dairy units in Ireland - Profitable dairy expansion
Biography
Picure: Finbarr O’Rourke Bryan Hynes grew up on a beef farm in Clarinbridge, Co Galway. Following his Arts degree in 2010, Bryan started working as a news journalist with the Irish Farmers Journal. In spring 2013 he traded beef animals for dairy cows and commenced dairy farming. In 2017 Bryan received a Nuffield Scholarship and studied ‘the management models of multiple units’. The aim of his report was to form a template of setting up and managing multiple units for Irish farmers. Also in 2017 he leased a farm in north Clare and commenced milking there in 2018.
Nuffield Study
Models for managing multiple dairy units in Ireland - Profitable dairy expansion
Picure: Finbarr O’Rourke Bryan Hynes grew up on a beef farm in Clarinbridge, Co Galway. Following his Arts degree in 2010, Bryan started working as a news journalist with the Irish Farmers Journal. In spring 2013 he traded beef animals for dairy cows and commenced dairy farming. In 2017 Bryan received a Nuffield Scholarship and studied ‘the management models of multiple units’. The aim of his report was to form a template of setting up and managing multiple units for Irish farmers. Also in 2017
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Year
2017 Scholar
Location
Co. Clare
Sector
Dairy
Education
Farm Enterprise
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