James Gough - Beef and Sheep

James is a beef and sheep farmer in Co. Waterford  

Main motivations include:

• Always farming when he was young and grew up on it
• Was working and farming part time in the evenings, then things got quiet with work so he had more time to farm
• Completed the green cert

Main success factors:

• Background in farming
• Good advisory services available to him
• Always trying to modernise

Key hurdles:

• Gaining income – to modernise you need income
• Labour – years ago lots of young people on the land

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