Shane Keaveney, Ballinlough, FutureBeef Farmer

Shane Keaveney, FutureBeef Programme Participant farms full time in Ballinlough county Roscommon with his family. They have a herd of about 37 suckler cows and are a spring calving herd.
The bulls are finished at under 16 months, and the heifers then are sold as forward stores. They have a very compact calving so the reason for that is you have a group of animals that's the same weight, same age, and from handling them, from doing simple tasks with them, they can all be treated the same.