Carbery Group

Our farmer shareholders, the Crowley family, recently welcomed NBCs Al Roker to their farm for a special feature on the TODAY Show🐄 The visit offered viewers across the US a glimpse into life on an Irish dairy farm, highlighting the people, traditions and hard work behind Irish dairy production. A fantastic opportunity to share the story of Irish dairy farming with an international audience and showcase the family farms at the heart of Carbery Watch the feature here: https://lnkd.in/ejeJMAzm

Today, on International Day of Rural Women, we’re taking a moment to celebrate the women who play such an important role in our farming and rural communities. We were proud to recently bring women from across the wider agri-food community together to connect, share experiences and hear from those helping to shape the future of the sector - right here in West Cork. It was a special reminder of the strength, skill and leadership women bring to our industry and to communities across West Cork and beyond.

“It’s very rewarding to go out to your cows, morning and evening, and they’re full and content.” For Cabery supplier Tomás White, farming is built around care, consistency and taking each day as it comes. His advice to others considering their own path in farming is simple: “Just take it step by step, you’ll be fine.” Through Shared Futures, we are proud to highlight the people, experiences and pathways that are shaping the future of farming in West Cork. From succession and farm transfer to leasing, partnerships and other collaborative models, there are many different ways to plan for what comes next. This work is part of Carbery’s wider commitment to supporting our farmer shareholders, encouraging generational renewal and helping build a resilient future for dairy farming in West Cork and across Ireland.

Women have always played an important role in farming, food and rural communities, but that contribution hasn’t always had the visibility it deserves. That was really the thinking behind our Leading the Way: Women Driving Innovation, Farming & Food event, marking the UN International Year of the Woman Farmer. More than 160 people joined us in West Cork to hear from Eilis Mahon, Nicole Keohane, Aoife Dullea and our own Aine Hallihan, with Sarah McIntosh leading the conversation. And it was a great conversation!! Honest experiences, plenty of laughs and lots of very simple, practical advice about careers, farming, family, leadership and taking opportunities when they come. The idea for the day came from Caroline O’Donovan, Marguerite Crowley, Caroline O’Neill and Vanessa Kiley O’Connor, who felt this was a conversation worth having. Thank you for starting it. And thank you to everyone who came along, as well as Macra, Dairy Women Ireland, Marie Keating Foundation, HSE and ICOS for joining us on the day. If you’d like to hear the conversation for yourself, you can watch the full panel here: https://lnkd.in/dUg7hEga

David has been a wonderful addition to our Ballineen team!!

At Shinagh Farm, new technologies are being tested to explore how more value can be created from grass and support more sustainable farming. Ireland’s first on-farm grass biorefinery and anaerobic digestion demonstration facility is helping us understand how grass can be used beyond its important role as livestock feed. The facility will test how grass can be processed into a range of potential outputs, including livestock feed, protein and biobased ingredients, renewable energy and nutrient-rich material. Testing this technology on a working farm allows us to build practical evidence and better understand what these opportunities could mean for Carbery farmers and the wider agri-food sector. Thank you to everyone involved in supporting this work.

The performance nutrition category is being surrounded, not replaced. Are you building for both? Only 23% of consumers use sports nutrition for intensive exercise. 62% use it for casual activity, and around 70% expect more than one benefit from a single product. Our new Horizon 10 report, The Future of Performance Nutrition, reads sixteen signals of change and sets out what each could look like by 2035.  It was developed with input from industry experts and customers across the category, alongside global market and consumer data, so the view is grounded in what people building in this space are actually seeing. The consumer who trains hard is still the highest-frequency user and still sets the category's credibility. What has changed is everything now growing around them. Read the report: https://lnkd.in/eKZW9YZF #PerformanceNutrition #FutureOfFood #Horizon10 #Protein