Family Farming

It’s a grass roots thing with the people and farmers of Ireland with agricultural production based on a network of 120,000 holdings ranging from small part-time farms to medium sized family run enterprises.. Ireland has a long standing heritage in beef farming. Farms are traditional and family owned, passed from generation to generation, as is the craft and love of livestock farming, with herds built up and improved and refined over generations. Our farmers believe that food is best when it is simple and natural.

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About our Featured Farmers

Ben Colchester

Running a diverse and productive 194-acre organic family farm in the heart of Co. Kilkenny, the Colchesters sell most of their output directly to local customers through their farm shop.

Marcus and Leeann Wallace

Marcus and his wife Leeann farm 33.5 hectares near Castlefinn in County Donegal, with all of the farm in grass. They run a herd of 40 spring-calving suckler cows, selling the calves as weanlings and yearlings in the local cattle market.

Ivor and Joe Deverell

Offaly is a midlands county and part of Ireland’s great central pasture belt. It is here that uncle and nephew Joe and Ivor Deverell jointly farm 520 acres in Geashill, near Tullamore.

Denis and John Large

Brothers Denis and John Large farm approximately 900 acres near the town of Urlingford, beside the border of counties Tipperary and Kilkenny. They are the third generation of their family to occupy the homestead.

Ben and Elaine Ryall

Fellfort Angus Farm is a 185-acre farm located in Watergrasshill, Co. Cork. Approximately 50 acres of the land is rented. 80 per cent of the entire farm is under grass and the remaining under spring barley.

All about Irish Beef

Traditional farming methods are combined with the latest technologies to help farmers produce beef that is sustainable, flavourful and nutritious.

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The Grass Fed Standard from Bord Bia

The Grass-Fed Standard is the world’s first independently verified standard on a national scale, which allows Irish processors to track and verify the percentage of grass consumed in the diet of Irish beef herds.