Farm Viability
Enhancing farm viability and competitiveness in all agricultural sectors.
About Farm Viability
Farm Viability and Competitiveness
The National Rural Network (NRN) will highlight the challenges and present good practice models that can support farms and Irish agriculture to remain viable and competitive.
Areas of focus are driven by the NRN’s ongoing networking and priorities of the RDP including:
- Farm succession and inheritance
- Women in agriculture
- Rural business
- Organic farming.
Rural Services - Expand Your Horizons
As part of ‘Expand Your Horizons 2017 – Reaching Out to Rural Ireland’ Teagasc and the NRN brought together over 20
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An innovative series of evening seminars took place from January to March 2017 to promote the value of rural Ireland and
- Find out their options for farm diversification
- Consider a new farm business or off-farm enterprise
- Explore options for retraining for a new job
- Learn about applying for funding opportunities under the Rural Development Programme 2014-2020
- Find out about how to access LEADER funding.
Check out videos from contributors to Expand Your Horizons.
Latest News
Margaret Edgill Participant in the NRN Women in Agriculture Video Series, Talks Farm Diversification On Midlands 103
Last week saw the launch of the third video of the NRN Women in Agriculture Video Series, which features Margaret Edgill an Organic Farmer from Mount Briscoe Farm, Daingean, county Offaly. This video details how Margaret came to farming, having left her primary career...
The NRN Women in Agriculture Video Series Makes the Airwaves
Lead Researcher with the NRN, and Rural Geographer at the National University of Ireland Galway, Dr. Maura Farrell, has been speaking on the airwaves this week about the newly launched NRN Women in Agriculture Video Series. Speaking on Community Radio Castlebar...
Irish Women in Agriculture Video Series
Ireland’s National Rural Network (NRN) have developed an insightful video series highlighting the pivotal role women play in Irish agriculture. Traditionally a male-dominated profession, the 2016 Central Statistics Office (CSO) data shows that of the 265,400 people...
Blog Posts
Assessing Access to Land Across the European Union
In this guest blog, Dr Shane Conway, Researcher in the Discipline of Geography’s Rural Studies Unit at NUI Galway provides us with an insight into the importance of land mobility (i.e. transfer of land from one farmer to another, or from one generation to the...
How do we Transition to Smart Farming in Ireland?
In this guest blog, Dr Peter Mooney and Dr Liadh Kelly, Lecturers in the Department of Computer Science at Maynooth University, provide us with a comprehensive insight into the huge potential of Smart Farming Technologies to improve the...
The Key Aspects of Collaborative Farming
In this guest blog, Paidi Kelly, Research Officer at Teagasc, Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Moorepark, Fermoy, Co. Cork, outlines the growing interest in collaborative farming arrangements in Ireland. He also outlines the key aspects to ensure...
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Case Studies
CO-FARM: Enhancing COoperation Amongst FARMing Entrepreneurs
The CO-FARM training app provides a training program aiming to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to work in a cooperative environment. The online training programme is designed to be flexible, which can be accessed at any time. It is also free to participate...
National Rural Network Social Farming Case Study
Social Farming is relatively new in an Irish context and is unique in that it speaks to the growing multi-functionality of Irish farming, whilst also overlapping with current health and social care policy. It does this by providing supports and opportunities for...
National Rural Network Farm Partnership Case Study
What are farm partnerships? Farming has had many changes over the years including an increase in more collaborative ways of farming. Collaborative farming models have trickled into Irish agriculture in a variety of forms including share farming, contract rearing and...
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