Securing your future in beef farming forum at BEEF2024

BEEF2024 took place on Wednesday, 26 June in the Teagasc Grange Animal and Grassland Research and Innovation centre in County Meath. At the event, a forum took place which was chaired by Maeve Dineen, RTE Ear to the Ground and focused on securing your future in beef farming.

The forum was opened by Liam Herlihy, Chair of the Teagasc Authority and featured a Ministerial Address by Charlie McConalogue TD, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

The panellists on the forum included:
- Professor Frank O'Mara, Teagasc Director
- Pat McDonagh, Managing Director, Supermac's
- Ciaran Fitzgerald, Agri economist
- Ken Gill, Organic farmer and Future Beef Programme Participant, Co. Offaly
- Eamonn & Donnacha McCarthy, Future Beef Programme Participants, Co. Waterford
- Marie Donnelly, Chair of the Climate Change Advisory Council

In this forum the main opportunities and challenges facing the sector and beef farm families were discussed, in particular, succession and inheritance. The speakers from the beef sector outlined the strengths of the sector and the potential to enhance profitability, sustainability and lifestyle through the deployment of latest technologies.

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