Successful National Organic Beef Open Day

Over twelve hundred farmers attended the National Organic Beef Open Day on the farm of John Purcell, Ross, Golden, Cashel, Co Tipperary earlier this week. The open day was jointly organised by Teagasc, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and Bord Bia and provided the farmers attending with the opportunity to see farm practices on this successful organic beef farm.

Opening the forum at the organic beef open day, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue TD said the organic sector in Ireland has a very exciting and unique future. He said; “This event demonstrated the benefits of organic farming through a workable viable enterprise. Our programme for government has a target of 7.5% of all agricultural land farmed organically by 2030 and this is a very achievable target and one we are committed to reaching. We are going to provide €256 million in funding over the next CAP period, which is a fivefold increase in organic payments from what the last CAP would have had.”

A comprehensive booklet prepared for the national beef organic open day is available at this link:  https://www.teagasc.ie/publications/2022/national-organic-beef-open-day.php

Articles and videos on the content of some of the stands is available on Teagasc Daily https://www.teagasc.ie/news--events/daily/ and through the Teagasc app. These include information on red clover, combination crops, organic winter finishing diets and composting cattle manure.

A video recording of the forum at the beef organic open day can be viewed here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl4DIFgjhxg&t=2189s