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Currently, cattle farming remains one of Ireland's most prominent sectors, with over 6.5 million cows on Irish farms, accounting for over 25 percent of agriculture output. Ireland's national breeding herd comprises 1.5 million dairy cows and 889,000 suckler cows , making Ireland's suckler cow herd the third largest in the world, following ...
A prize-winning Irish Moiled. The Irish Moiled is a rare cattle breed from Ireland. [1] [2] It is a dual-purpose breed, reared for both beef and milk.It originated in County Leitrim, County Sligo, County Down, and County Donegal, but the breed is now found throughout Ireland.
In medieval Gaelic Ireland a cowman was known as a bóaire and was landed. [1] Today, however, in the British Isles the cowman usually is an employee, synonymous with cowherd . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] A highly skilled, superior cowman would be equivalent to an American farm or ranch manager, responsible for daily management of the herd.
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Kerry cattle (Irish: Bó Chiarraí or Bollatach or Buinín) are a rare breed of dairy cattle, native to Ireland. They are believed to be one of the oldest breeds in Europe, probably derived from small black cattle brought to Ireland by Neolithic man. They were probably also the first cattle bred mainly for milk production, with other breeds ...
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Sharemilking is the application of the sharefarming concept to the dairy industry; it is particularly common in New Zealand but is not unheard of elsewhere. The specific arrangement to which the term sharemilking is understood (via synecdoche) to apply is less ambiguously known as herd-owning or fifty-fifty sharemilking.
Rundale clachan patterns of settlement still visible in Inver, Kilcommon, Erris, County Mayo, Ireland. The rundale system (apparently from the Irish Gaelic words "roinn" which refers to the division of something and "dáil", in the sense of apportionment) was a form of occupation of land in Ireland, somewhat resembling the English common field system.