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
Minister Hackett Announces Approvals to Farmers Under Organic Farming Scheme Have Begun to Issue
The Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Senator Pippa Hackett today announced that approvals to farmers who applied this year for the Organic Farming Scheme, have begun to issue. The Minister said: “I am delighted those who applied...
Pilot Soil Sampling Programme
What is the Pilot Soil Sampling Programme The pilot Soil Sampling Programme is a farm level soil sampling and analysis initiative which will provide farmers and their advisors with comprehensive details about the soil health and soil condition on their farms. These...
Teagasc / FBD Student of the Year Award 2020
Deirdre McMahon from Leagh North, Kinvara, Co. Galway was recently announced as the national winner of the 2020 Teagasc/FBD Student of the Year award. Deirdre completed the Teagasc Distance Education Green Cert programme at Salesian Agricultural College, Pallaskenry,...
NRN Women in Agriculture Video Series
Blog Posts
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...
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...
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Case Studies
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...
An Overview of Producer Organisations
What are Producer Organisations (POs)? Producer Organisations or POs can simply be defined as legally constituted groups of producers or farmers (EU Commission, 2017). More specifically, they can also be understood as rural businesses which are producer owned and...
Video Gallery
Farm Succession and Inheritance
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Unit 2A Moate Business Park,
Clara Rd, Moate,
Co. Westmeath. N37 W9R0
