Upland Farming - ACRES Donegal in conversation with Sean Cadden, Catherine Keena and Martin Gavin

In this episode we speak to Sean Cadden, Catherine Keena and Martin Gavin who share with us the history of upland farming in Ireland.Sean Cadden worked as a Teagasc Agricultural Advisor in West Mayo from 1964 for almost 40 years. He recently published a book entitled ‘Seventy Years in the Wild West – The Rise and Fall of Ireland’s Largest Sheep Farm’. His story of the history of hill farming provides a valuable insight which will add to the current conversation on our uplands. Catherine Keena is the Countryside Management Specialist at Teagasc with particular focus on biodiversity on our farms and Martin Gavin is a fifth generation hill farmer. Martin has been involved in the Freshwater Pearl Mussel EIP which as he says himself "opened his eyes to the plight of these fascinating creatures". Martin is an ACRES farmers.ACRES is the Agri Climate Rural Environment Scheme, the latest agri scheme from the Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and aims to deliver significant long-term environmental improvement through two approaches – ACRES Co-operation and ACRES General.Visit our website https://www.acresdonegal.ie Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.