Our Farmers

Sustainable Farming Practices:

"Sustainable farming is about our heritage as a people, its the way we farmed as a nation for centuries past.  As a newly qualified vet back in the early 70's, I was fortunate to see and experience such farming practices at first hand on small family farms here in the North West of Ireland, farming practices that today would be classified by many as 'organic' and I remain convinced to this day that such farming methods remain sustainable for land, livestock, people and are in harmony with nature."

John Molloy, Managing Director of Yeats Country Foods.

How We Encourage

We advocate and support sustainable farming practices and in doing so pay our certified organic milk suppliers a premium for their milk to help offset the additional cost and restrictions that apply when true organic farming is practiced.  A premium that is in part reflected in the cost you pay for organic produce.

Is Organic Farming the "Only Way"?

We don't believe it is!

We are strong believers in the notion of wholesome food, farm to table, and we are aware that the need to survive on a small holding means that all family farms cannot survive by farming organically.

Why?

Well, in our view the answer is fairly simple. Namely that even with the small organic premium that now exists for the farm producer, there simply isn't the market return to sustain these farms.  On such farms there is a need to farm at a higher level of intensity, while still remaining fully committed to sustainable practices as they apply to land, livestock and people and again, we financially encourage this approach.

At the End of the Day

This is simply why, at the end of the day, there is a cost difference to you, our valued customer, between 'organic' and what can be best refered to as 'conventional' dairy products but in the final analysis each product is made with the highest quality milk, bundles of care and to our individual special recipes so the choice remains your's.