Sean Cummins
Digital Knowledge Transfer Platforms to Initiate On-farm Change
Biography
Sean Cummins from Inistioge in Co Kilkenny is a dairy farmer. Having completed a PhD in dairy cow fertility in Teagasc, Moorepark, he returned to his first love, dairy farming. He is in a milk production partnership with his father. They operate a mixed beef (100 cattle) and dairy (70 cows) enterprise on a 67 ha farm. They expanded their dairy enterprise after EU milk quotas ended in 2015. Sean travelled to Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan and the Netherlands to study key mechanisms/platforms that best aid farmers to up-skill and manage larger herds, and/or changed farming enterprise, and adopted new technologies to ensure farm profitability.
Nuffield Study
Digital Knowledge Transfer Platforms to Initiate On-farm Change
Sean Cummins from Inistioge in Co Kilkenny is a dairy farmer. Having completed a PhD in dairy cow fertility in Teagasc, Moorepark, he returned to his first love, dairy farming. He is in a milk production partnership with his father. They operate a mixed beef (100 cattle) and dairy (70 cows) enterprise on a 67 ha farm. They expanded their dairy enterprise after EU milk quotas ended in 2015. Sean travelled to Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan and the Netherlands to study key mechanisms/platforms that
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Quick Info
Year
2012 Scholar
Location
Co. Kilkenny
Sector
Dairy
Education
