In 1996, once I’d finished the farm management course with Farm Apprenticeship Board, I came back to farm here in Tipperary, on my family’s farm. At the time our dairy herd was still quite small, with only thirty-five to forty cows, so I started to build it up.
My late father had a passion for Herefords and when I was quite young, he bought three cows and registered his prefix Bawnlea, the prefix that we still use today. In 2018, with the dairy herd built up I got back into Herefords, and I bought two Heifers in the October Premier Sale in Tullamore. We have now built our herd up to eighteen cows, which is the most we can manage on this farm.
