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.
NRN Women in Agriculture Video Series
Latest News
Blog Posts
Minister McConalogue Launches €56 million Fodder Support Scheme
Following on from the package of measures announced in recent months to provide support to Irish farmers, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue, today launched a €56 million Fodder Support Scheme. Launching the measure, Minister...
FARMWELL Horizon 2020 Project
FARMWELL is a new Horizon 2020 European Thematic Network that aims to improve the mental, physical and social wellbeing of farmers through more accessible social innovations which help address common social challenges facing the farming community such as mental health...
RURALIZATION: The Opening of Rural Areas to Renew Rural Generations, Jobs and Farms
In this National Rural Network Farm Viability and Competitiveness guest blog, Dr Aisling Murtagh, RURALIZATION Postdoctoral Researcher in the Discipline of Geography’s Rural Studies Unit at NUI Galway and Dr Maura Farrell, Lecturer in the Discipline of Geography at...
New Entrant to the Agri-food Sector – The Gourmet Gardener
In this National Rural Network guest blog, Horticulturalist Tara Kate Linnane, who was runner up in this year’s RTÉ Super Garden Competition, outlines her educational and professional background in the agri-food sector to date. She also provides us with an insight...
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Case Studies
Anne Marie Feighery – Feighery’s Farm Beetroot Juice
In 2019, Anne Marie Feighery launched her innovative agri-food business, Feighery’s Farm Beetroot Juice, which produces beetroot juice using pesticide-free beetroot grown by her father and brothers on their family farm on Co. Offaly. Anne Marie actually credits her...
Entrepreneurial Young Trained Farmer Case Study
Karol Devaney, Drumcliffe, Co. Sligo Supporting young farmers wishing to enter the agricultural sector is a key priority of Ireland’s Rural Development Programme (RDP). Throughout the European Union, such measures aimed at stimulating generational renewal in...
Rural Voices: Farm Viability and Competitiveness Guest Blogs – Rural Development Programme (RDP) 2014-2020 Booklet Launch
A key objective of the Irish National Rural Network (NRN) has been to maximise the beneficial outcomes of the Rural Development Programme (RDP) 2014-2020 here in Ireland by bringing it to the lives of as many researchers, farm advisors, agri-businesses, farmers and...
Farm Viability Resource Centre:
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Contact Info
Tel: 090 6482744
Email: info@nationalruralnetwork.ie
Address
Unit 2A Moate Business Park,
Clara Rd, Moate,
Co. Westmeath. N37 W9R0
