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It was another momentous day in Athenry last Friday when Ireland’s first National Centre of Excellence dedicated to supporting start up, micro and small food businesses was officially opened by An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.

PJ Finnerty from Brideswell was announced as winner of the ‘Lamb Producer’ category at the Sustainable Farmer Awards which took place at the recently hosted Tullamore Show.

Cillian Murphy from Newport was the winner of the seven to nine year old category in the recent Teagasc Farm Safety art competition.

Ifac, Ireland’s farming, food and agribusiness professional services firm, in partnership with Aurivo and Teagasc, will host a farm walk in Oranmore next week.

Exploring solutions to and the reality of challenges facing the dairy industry, not least around sustainability, will be explored on Tuesday night next January 28 with a range of experts in the space set to address farmers at a major Arrabawn conference.

It may not be the most obvious focus for a European Capital of Culture event, but Galway 2020 will be celebrating everything and anything to do with sheep - from farm to fork, the catwalk, and everything in between.

Edel Boyd from Carrowmore Lacken, Ballina has been awarded the Mountbellew Agri College Best Farm Business Plan award sponsored by AIB.

Mayo County Council, in conjunction with its partners: Teagasc, the Department of Agriculture & Food, the National Parks and Wildlife Service, the Irish Farmers Association and the Irish Natura and Hill Farmers Association, which form the Mayo Agricultural Working Group and the Planning, Environment and Agriculture Strategic Policy Committee - have published a new strategy entitled: “A Sustainable Agricultural Strategy for Mayo”.

‘Making Dairy Farming More Sustainable’ was the theme of this year’s Teagasc National Dairy Conference which took place at the Hodson Bay Hotel, Athlone, recently.

The Calvey Family from Keel has become the inaugural winners of the National Farming for Nature Award 2018.