Michael Finegan from Ireland broke the pattern when he decided to change the direction of the family farm from cows to goats back in 2010.
He studied agriculture at Greenmount College in Antrim, and after four years in New Zealand managing dairy farms, he returned to Ireland, hoping to expand his dairy enterprise at a home farm in Mullah, near Slane in Koh Mith.
Direct speech: “I had the full intention to continue my career in the dairy industry when I returned home, but after returning to Ireland, the Ministry of Agriculture informed us that we should modernize our system,” he recalls.
There are more than 50 different varieties of goat cheese, most of which appeared in France.
Direct speech: “My father was in partnership with his brother, and the situation on the farm was old, and it needed to be changed. My father decided that he did not want to do this, so we left the cow partnership, ”says Michael.
Direct speech: "It was around the time of the boom, when opportunities flowed by stream, so I decided to work outside agriculture for some time, but soon after that the farm was divided, and I took over."
Then Michael switched to goat breeding. At the expense of a private investor, he bought goats and equipment for making goat cheese, and now his farm is flourishing. Direct speech: “Goats look like cows in that they eat the same food, so for me it was not a radical change” He says.
- The construction of an innovative goat farm is in the most active phase in the Shpakovsky district of the Stavropol Territory.
- In the Vinnitsa region, two agricultural enterprises - "Olgopol" and "Ukraine O" - combined in funds and efforts and built a dairy from scratch. He will process products from a nearby farm, which was reconstructed after several years of inactivity.
- When the peak of milk production in May reaches its peak, there may be only 1-2% of the reserve processing capacity in Ireland, which creates a huge danger for the sector that is trying to cope with the Covid-19 problem.
