Nicole is a young Irish dairy farmer, farming alongside her parents John and Anne in Innishannon, County Cork. Nicole combines part-time farming with her studies for a MSc., and works as a researcher for an animal health company.
“Between Monday and Friday you might catch me in the laboratory, trying my hand at a bit of molecular biology, on one of my trial farms collecting milk samples, or in the library. On the weekends, I’m mostly found at home on the farm; milking cows, looking after calves, anything to do my part”.
Nicole typifies a new generation of farmers, for whom scientific innovation and ancient traditions can happily co-exist. Nicole is passionate about encouraging a new generation into the industry, as an advocate for the efforts farmers are making to tackle climate change challenges.
