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David Hallissey

David Hallissey

Business & Technology Drystock Advisor at Teagasc and College Lecturer at Clonakilty Agricultural College, based in Macroom, Co. Cork

Aug 5, 2026

15:26
Is this an area that you're seeing growing?
15:28
Yeah, catching is definitely something we're seeing in the area in growing, maybe not to the same extent as Noel, but even just going on to the local shows and sales and I suppose the amount of people that have cattle hauled through Traynow and trying to get into that whole showing side of things, the numbers have definitely grown significantly.
15:48
particularly amongst younger farmers.
15:50
And even outside of people that might be breeding the stock, you'd have a number of people buying maybe whalings from shows and sales in our part of the world.
16:01
And they'd be the ones bringing them on into the likes of your local shows and bring them on into different classes and stuff like that.
16:08
So, It's definitely an area we're seeing more interest in.
16:13
It mightn't be a whole farm system, but it's definitely part of the piece and a lot more suckler farms in particular in the last three, four, five years.
16:29
As an advisor, what's your advice?

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