Adding Value

Donegal Bay

Donegal Bay

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I've started this thread to highlight farms that are adding value to their output, perhaps by selling direct to the end user, further processing of their raw product, an alternative enterprise or agri tourism. Feel free to discuss and add links to any enterprises that come to mind.
Here are a few to start off with.

Possibly the last commercial pig farm in Mayo, selling their own rashers and sausages.
http://www.jackandeddies.com/

Farm Brewery in Mayo.
http://www.westmayobrewery.ie/

Co Laois tillage farm brewing on farm using their own malted barley.
http://12acresbrewing.ie/

Started off making cheese many years ago the now also do a range of pork and charcuterie products.
http://www.gubbeen.com/

West Cork dairy farm making yogurt cheesecakes and dairy desserts.
http://www.glenilenfarm.com/

I have no connection with any of the above but I have bought some of their products and they are top quality and very tasty.
 
Donegal Bay said:
I've started this thread to highlight farms that are adding value to their output, perhaps by selling direct to the end user, further processing of their raw product, an alternative enterprise or agri tourism. Feel free to discuss and add links to any enterprises that come to mind.
Here are a few to start off with.

Possibly the last commercial pig farm in Mayo, selling their own rashers and sausages.
http://www.jackandeddies.com/

Farm Brewery in Mayo.
http://www.westmayobrewery.ie/

Co Laois tillage farm brewing on farm using their own malted barley.
http://12acresbrewing.ie/

Started off making cheese many years ago the now also do a range of pork and charcuterie products.
http://www.gubbeen.com/

West Cork dairy farm making yogurt cheesecakes and dairy desserts.
http://www.glenilenfarm.com/

I have no connection with any of the above but I have bought some of their products and they are top quality and very tasty.
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Interesting I never heard of the brewery in Mayo before. And that's near where my father originates from.
 
JOHNNY BOY said:
Interesting I never heard of the brewery in Mayo before. And that's near where my father originates from.
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There are three breweries in Mayo but they would have only started in the last few years, the other two are Reel Deel in Crossmolina and Mescan near Murrisk, there were plans to start a Distillery in Lahardaun but I don't think they've come to anything yet. In fact all down the West coast from Malin to Mizzen there are a good number of micro breweries.
 
Donegal Bay said:
There are three breweries in Mayo but they would have only started in the last few years, the other two are Reel Deel in Crossmolina and Mescan near Murrisk, there were plans to start a Distillery in Lahardaun but I don't think they've come to anything yet. In fact all down the West coast from Malin to Mizzen there are a good number of micro breweries.
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Always said it was a bad day you didn't learn something new.
We won't mention anything about all the stills (spelling) down along the west coast :lol::lol:
 
We have the village dairy nearby in clonmore laois as well. They're selling milk in the local supermarkets and suplying fancy barista coffee bars ib dublin. The lads that supply them think it's a great job. Soon to be on telly, i hear.
 
Ugo Schtiglitz said:
We have the village dairy nearby in clonmore laois as well. They're selling milk in the local supermarkets and suplying fancy barista coffee bars ib dublin. The lads that supply them think it's a great job. Soon to be on telly, i hear.
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Is Clonmore not in Co Carlow ?
Maybe it is in Laois , I know part of Carlow,town is in Co Laois.
 
jf 850 said:
Is Clonmore not in Co Carlow ?
Maybe it is in Laois , I know part of Carlow,town is in Co Laois.
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He means Clonmore Laois out by The Mal pub . Clonmore Hacketstown Carlow should really be in Wicklow and is inhabited by muck savages . Some Councillors want to build a Trump wall around it . Kofi annan would give up on sorting out the Graiguecullen issue which is the part of Carlow Town on the West Bank of the river . They used to play football for Carlow but were suspended in 1926 so changed to Laoise So have won county championships inn Two countys .
 
jay gatsby said:
Wild country out here near the border! The beer is laois anyway and very tasty too I must say
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JOHNNY BOY said:
Always said it was a bad day you didn't learn something new.
We won't mention anything about all the stills (spelling) down along the west coast :lol::lol:
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There's a story I heard that I'm trying to find out more about, any info welcome. Apparently there was a glen in Donegal that had an illegal hooch distillery. It was like a cottage industry for some village there. Anyways after the industry started a strong growth phase:Thumbp2:, the peelers were dispatched to subdue the excesses of said cottage industry. As I understand it, the natives fought off sucessive waves of lawmen until they gave up coming and continued distilling and exporting from their own republic. It's the season when the schtiglitz towers tax bill arrives and I'm wondering if I can learn anything from this story?
 
We process all our own milk into cheese, yogurt and bottled milk.

It's one thing to process, distribution is another thing altogether.

I started a small scale Hort venture and I'm supplying my brother and a few shops. It's very rewarding meeting the end customer.

I was at the ploughing throwing out samples, got to meet some great folk.

Adding value can often look easy or financially rewarding on the fag packet calculator, but can often have huge hidden costs; if you can stick it out, it's usually strengthens your business. I would prefer to see Irish farming less reliant on the supermarket chains price wars and working towards higher standards and grades.
 
Treemover said:
We process all our own milk into cheese, yogurt and bottled milk.

It's one thing to process, distribution is another thing altogether.

I started a small scale Hort venture and I'm supplying my brother and a few shops. It's very rewarding meeting the end customer.

I was at the ploughing throwing out samples, got to meet some great folk.

Adding value can often look easy or financially rewarding on the fag packet calculator, but can often have huge hidden costs; if you can stick it out, it's usually strengthens your business. I would prefer to see Irish farming less reliant on the supermarket chains price wars and working towards higher standards and grades.
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Where are Your products on sale @Treemover ?
 
Treemover said:
We process all our own milk into cheese, yogurt and bottled milk.

It's one thing to process, distribution is another thing altogether.

I started a small scale Hort venture and I'm supplying my brother and a few shops. It's very rewarding meeting the end customer.

I was at the ploughing throwing out samples, got to meet some great folk.

Adding value can often look easy or financially rewarding on the fag packet calculator, but can often have huge hidden costs; if you can stick it out, it's usually strengthens your business. I would prefer to see Irish farming less reliant on the supermarket chains price wars and working towards higher standards and grades.
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Well done:Thumbp2::Thumbp2::Thumbp2:
What's your brand name and where do you sell?
 
http://mossfield.ie/wheretobuy.html

Thanks, all over the country, it would take me too long to list the shops and delis.
And I can't copy and paste with my fone!

This list isn't accurate. But feel free to ask your local shop to contact us regards stocking them. That's how it works. We cant just ask them; it has to be the customer!

We're looking to build up a run down through Carlow, down to Cork, and across to Kerry. This might not happen for a while, but it has to happen.
 
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Donegal Bay said:
According to The Dealer in this week's Journal He is leasing part of the farm to a dairy farmer and retaining enough land to grow barley for His brewery.
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Heard he was keeping 50 and setting the rest which would be 300 to 350. It would be another large tillage block in a big tillage area going into grass. I would go as far a saying it would be some of the best land in the country
 
The trouble with adding value to the raw product is that it has followed the trend of pretty much everything else in life and has become more specialised. The gap between what the farmer grows and what the consumer expects on their plate has grown wider despite the marketing boys of many food companies convincing the public otherwise. McDonalds stressing how their product is Irish sourced through romantic images of sons of the plough and leafy trees is a classic case in point. Who here can rustle up a Egg McMuffin that is identical to every other egg McMuffin and is available in most towns at 7 in the morning for a euro? Whatever you might think of the actual food it has to be appreciated that there is huge organisation behind that feat which cannot be matched by growers who's specialist job it is to provide the raw materials.

I'm not knocking the enterprise of those who are pushing back at the processors churning out junk food, far from it, in fact I greatly admire them for doing so, only noting that there is a limit as to what can be done at farm level before the farmer has to leave the fields behind and concentrate on producing food instead.
 
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