Brendan Muldowney - Farming Partners; Could this be your route into farming?
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- čas přidán 25. 02. 2024
- In Episode 16 Cammy and Iona catch up with Brendan Muldowney from Farming Partners, an organisation creating big opportunities for passionate land owners and keen farmers.
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Im from New Zealand and now work for farming partners in Scotland as a 2ic, love what they are doing. This farming method does work here in Scotland. Great podcast
Hi Steven, my youngest Uncle married a Dairy farmers daughter from New Zealand. Their second son born and brought up and went to University in Scotland . He went to New Zealand and started milking on a family friends farm. He did a dairy course and worked through the New Zealand Dairy share farm system until he now owns his own small dairy farm near Raglan.
The dairy farming jumped a generation but carries on.
Good luck to yourself. 😊
Cammy, Iowna and Brendan, great podcast.
Loved Brenda's back story. ( But not the old joke , how to make a small fortune in farming, make a large fortune in another business before you start farming. 😊😊😊
I just hope no one gets their fingers burnt when a partnership goes bad.
My husband and I milk jersey cows in vermont.we love your podcast. We would never own a sheep(lol) but we love the craic between Iona and Cammy.looking forward to the next one.
Partnering sounds like a great concept. I could listen to Cammy read the phone book, but I really do find these podcasts interesting. Great job Cammy, Iona and Brendan.
I’ve got to go find a bolus now 😂😂😂😂
Great podcast again this week. I learn something new every time. 👏 😊
That was an interesting podcast. There are so many ways to set up in farming.
Another great podcast Cammy and Iona. Always very interesting. I think Cammy you got Brendan to open up as it went along. But I must say sounds a great way to get into Cattle Farming.
Definitely!
A very nice podcast again i relief milk at one of there farms it’s a very good system to work with between calving in one block then putting them back in calf at one block also Brendan can tweek there system if the milk price drops but with hi input systems you can’t do that
Great podcast Cammy and Iona but as someone who suffered at the hands of the bankers and the builders who caused the financial crisis here in ireland in 2008,it's amazing how they walked away from it while we were left to pay the debts. I will never trust a banker again.sorry for venting
Sorry to say he’s a banker not a farmer , big money matters but so does farming . He keeps everything close to his chest !
Great podcast 👍
I know Brendan, you have to understand if they are going to continue to grow they need farmers to offer them land which if he is seen out there discussing private deals locals will talk which could be very awkward
@@andrewbaird3431I did say it was his prerogative.
You got the wrong end of the stick here , Brendan is a canny businessman and a good farmer, but he is not going to divulge in detail how the system works because he is looking to expand into Scotland by the looks of things ( probably because of the fact that it does have the largest farms in Europe). I suspect he did this because he wants the opportunity to promote his business but he doesn’t want to get specific about details.
Another great podcast this week, so interesting. We have "share farming" here in Australia, and that certainly works well at the small scale.
Very interesting. Will be on the lookout for Kerrygold when I go shopping this afternoon.
For podcasts with people you don't know may be a better option to have the hour long conversation you had after recording before you record. The start was quite awkward till Brendan relaxed, and you will hopefully come up with better questions (300 cows on 200 acres 🤯🤯 there no bl...dy sheep) 😂😂
Hoof GP had a tour of a farm which had their heard on grass. The farmer said the cheese set faster when the cows were on grass. I have an old English cookbook where the author is bemoaning the loss of the special cheeses being brought into the big producers since the flavour depends on the forage the animals are on. She was giving the example of cows on the Welsh hills for the summer when they made cheese, but they did not make that cheese in the winter. The big producers create a uniform bland cheese, not the cheeses with strong character. Those are more expensive to make and do not suit everyone’s taste.
My dad spoke to a super market buyer and he said that they love New Zealand lamb because they all pretty much have to same sheep which means all the cuts are consistent, which make packaging easier. Over here we have loads of different breeds which makes it very hard for processing. Maybe we should all put heads together and figured out a breed. That won’t happen because too many are to proud and hate change. But then land type often dictates the breed.
That is definitely one of the benefits of NZ lamb but remember they are getting £60 per head to our £140. So we must be doing something right!
Went to buy some Kerrygold butter after watching the podcast. Better be good Iona.
🤣 let us know!
Well good old New Zealand back in the forefront again Cammy 😂🤘 Obviously there’s more Scottish and Irish people come to New Zealand then I realise in the farming world
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How does having dry months work with milk buyers? Won’t they source milk from somewhere else, and perhaps not come back to you? He’s just answered at 38 mins
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You may work with the sheep that you like but I can guarantee a blackie or any other hill breed would not work on our hill end of. We have tried it but only a Cheviot can cut it in every way. Maybe a Welsh sheep would work but we haven’t tried them because the Cheviot works so well on our soils
Can all farmers in Scotland please teach their cows to swim, ski, operate snow ploughs to find their lunch, levitate over the mud and cross them with polar bears to avoid freezing to the spot, im only halfway into this podcast so all might become clearer but for now i dont see how this will work in all areas.
Good podcast. But it sounds like he was more a trader than an actual banker, while the scheme sounds good, it also sounds like it started with the wealthy buying up farms and then didn't get the planning permission to plant lots of trees from the local councils and locals not liking the idea of the loss of farms to trees and being rented out to big corporations as a carbon credit. As this venture also seems to have started around the time of farms in Scotland being bought out to plant trees. While there is nothing wrong with planting native trees most of these tree plantations plant very few native hardwood trees and even fewer softwood trees
Awkward interview. Felt for you Cammy. Hard work.
Canterbury is all irragiation
Is he Irish?
By no means does farming partners come across well in this advertisment.