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FBD Awards for farmers
FBD has also proudly run national events offering young farmers the opportunity to be recognised for outstanding achievement within their field such as:
- FBD Young Famer of the Year Awards 2010 > more
- An Acre of Fun Representing an Island of Farming > more
- Donegal farmer is Teagasc Student of the Year 2009 > more
- FBD Young Famer of the Year Awards Winner 2009 > more
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The FBD National Farmyard Awards
It’s two years since the launch of the first FBD National Farmyard Awards which were organised and promoted through the Irish Farmers Journal and Irish Country Living.
At the time many Irish farmyards were undergoing massive redevelopment as part of the Farm Waste Management Scheme. These Awards were seen as a welcome development that would showcase the best kept farmyards in the country.
Right from the start the Awards attracted plenty of interest from farm families. The quality of entries surpassed our judge’s expectations and all the winners could justifiably be held up as role models of best practice. That best practise covered farmyard maintenance, design, landscaping and health and safety controls. What the entries proved was that farmers didn’t need to spend lots of money to have a tidy, well-kept farmyard. What they needed was attention to detail and a little imagination.
Winning and short listed entries have come from farms across every enterprise and from families who are both full and part-time farmers. The FBD National Farmyard Awards have a universal appeal.
This was reinforced by recent reader research commissioned by the Irish Farmers’ Journal from Dr Pat Bogue of Broadmore Research. Dr Bogue said farmers viewed the Farmyard Awards as ‘an excellent idea which promoted ‘pride in your place’. They also felt the Awards were applicable to all farmers no matter what enterprise, age or type of land.
What was not envisaged when these Awards were established was the passion shown by so many entrants for the family farms that are entrusted in their care - their passion to have a pleasant and safe environment in which to farm.
Writing in Irish Country Living prior to last year’s competition, Katherine O’Leary said: "When I think about our award winners last year I am still gratified by the overwhelming enthusiasm of participants. It was so lovely to meet father-and-son teams, husbands and wives, young and old coming together to show us around their farmyards with pride. This is the essence of these Awards."
The FBD National Farmyard Awards encourages farming families to look at what they have accomplished - often over many years – to get credit for it and by their example encourage others to do the same.
That’s what makes the FBD National Farmyard Awards special and is the ideal they successfully promote to the farming community right across the country.
Finally keep reading the Irish Farmers Journal and Irish Country Living to find out about this year’s competition