Wicklow man on swaping intensive dairy farming in Meath for an organic livestock holding in Wicklow

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Wicklow man on swaping intensive dairy farming in Meath for an organic livestock holding in Wicklow

Posted by The Analyst | May 10, 2019 | Farming

‘We were running an intensive dairy farm at the time and I needed a change,” says Ernest Mackey about his move in the late 1970s from Meath to run a beef and sheep farm in west Wicklow.

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