FARM with CLARITY and CONFIDENCE while INCREASING PROFITS
09:00
Registration & Tea/Coffee - (Reception area)
09:30
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Michael Murphy
Session 1
09:35
State of Play & Future Fundamentals
How policy, markets and on-farm decisions will shape profitable grass-based dairying
over the next decade.
Market outlook
Policy shifts
Practical challenges and opportunities
Chairperson: John Keane
Michael Murphy,
International Dairy farmer & co founder of
Positive Farmers
Dr Brendan Horan.
Senior Dairy Systems Researcher, Teagasc
Moorepark
Session 2
11:05
Cost Control – Managing for Profitability
Real numbers, real examples – where costs creep in and how top farmers stop it.
Practical approaches
Keeping costs under control
Improving efficiency
Protecting margins in a volatile environment
Chairperson: Jack Kennedy
Denis Finnegan,
Dairy farmer, Lee Valley Farm
Diarmuid Brannock,
IFAC
12:35
Student Competition winners presentation
Kindly sponsored by MSD Animal Health
12:45
Lunch – (The Brasserie)
Session 3
14:00
Herd Wastage, the hidden leak in our milk tanks
Exploring how silent losses in herd health are draining profitability from otherwise
high-performing herds.
Cell count
Lameness
Longevity
Kindly sponsored by Munster Bovine
Chairperson: Gillian O’Sullivan
Dr. Doreen Corridan
CEO at National Cattle Breeding Centre
Mella Briscoe
Dairy farming in Co Galway
15:30
Tea/Coffee – (Reception area)
Session 4
16:00
Lessons from the ground up
Inspirational farmer stories – honest journeys of
Setbacks
Innovation
Personal growth
Profitability
19:30 Conference Dinner – The Great Island Ballroom
A relaxed evening with guest speaker and a room full of potential mentors,
partners and high-performing farmers.
Chairperson: Niall Murphy
Cathal McAleer
Share milking in Co. Kilkenny
Peter Farrell & Ciara Lynch
Dairy farming in Co. Meath
Kindly sponsored by IFAC
