Looking forward to speaking at this event next week 🇮🇪🇪🇺

Happy to see that my work has reached Canadian shores 🇨🇦 It's as equally applicable there as it is here due to our mutual concerns over an aging farming population & the need to ensure older farmer's social & emotional wellbeing whilst stimulating intergenerational farm transfer

Looking forward to sharing my research findings & policy recommendations with farmers & advisors in Northern Ireland at this conference next week.

Thanks to Richard Halleron for writing a piece for Agriland about my presentation on the social & emotional issues affecting farmers in later life, particularly in relation to the prospect of 'stepping aside' & retiring at Ulster Grassland Society's conference. agriland.ie/farming-news/o…

We are pleased to announce that our longstanding relationship with the International International FARMTRANSFERS Project Project, completed by over 18,000 farmers, in 13 countries & 8 U.S. states, has been strengthened by the inclusion of a new section about it on our website farmtransition.org/international-…

An insightful multi-actor approach experience testimonial by Dr Bram Moeskops, Managing Director of Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL, at our PREMIERE_EU-Project project's Atlantic-North Sea Macro-Region Advisory Panel meeting can be viewed here: youtu.be/ypjuHC83kIA

The next IFTN Training Session features Breian Carroll, Managing Director of Carroll Consultancy & Secretary-General of Ireland’s Agricultural Consultants Association (ACA), who will present the Béal Átha na Muice Farm Succession/Well Being EIP Farm Succession & Wellbeing European Project he led 🇺🇸🇮🇪 Register here: extension.sdstate.edu/event/internat… #EIPAgri

A new paper I authored entitled ‘All for One & One for All: Dissecting PREMIERE_EU-Project's Inclusive #AKIS Stakeholder Engagement Strategy’ has been published in Open Research Europe, an open access publishing venue for European Commission funded researchers. 🇮🇪🇪🇺 See: open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/4-27/…

This year's IFTN Annual Professional Development Conference will take place from June 5th-6th at Virginia Crossings Hotel & Conference Center, Richmond, Virginia, U.S. More info on this event, themed ‘Intergenerational Considerations for Farm Transition', will be announced soon!

An article by our Vice Chair, Shane Conway, highlighting the importance of recognising older farmer's invaluable store of lifelong skills and knowledge working the land, that the younger generation actively learn from, has been added to the IFTN website: farmtransition.org/auto-draftrese…

Enjoyable experience moderating this discussion between experts from Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic & the Netherlands on how these countries integrate Advisors into their Agricultural Knowledge & Innovation Systems #AKIS at the HEurope modernAKIS General Assembly in Madrid🇪🇦🇪🇺

Great to see 3 locally-led, farmer-centred Irish projects shortlisted for the #EIPAgri Innovation Awards 2024 -SUAS (Sustainable Uplands Agri-environment Scheme) -Illaun Farm-Forest Alliance -BRIDE (Biodiversity Regeneration in a Dairying Environment) Vote eu-cap-network.ec.europa.eu/campaign/eip-a…

Representing Teagasc at the EU CAP Network's '#EIPAgri Operational Groups: Innovation in Practice' conference taking place in Estoril, Portugal as part of my role as Irish Ambassador on the EU-FarmBook Horizon Europe Project. Pleased to see my previous work showcased here 🇪🇺🇮🇪

🫵If you're at the EU CAP Network EIP-AGRI #OGConference drop by our innovation exhibition stand. Our Ambassadors and team are set to show you how to boost your Operational Group's impact! Don't miss our presentation tomorrow morning during workshop 5, diving into #EUFarmBook.

For those of you interested in learning more about Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems #AKIS, the new AKISConnect platform brings together EU stakeholders across policy, research & practice working to bridge the gap between theory & action🇪🇺 See: akisconnect.eu/akis-network

Looking forward to presenting my research on the human dynamics affecting intergenerational family farm transfer in later life at this conference taking place in Virginia, U.S.A. Significant commonalities exist across continents & cultures when it comes to succession & retirement

IFTN Board Member, Shane Conway, will be presenting our affiliation with the International International FARMTRANSFERS Project Project, completed by over 18,000 farmers in 13 countries & 8 U.S. States, at the 2024 North Atlantic Forum international conference taking place this week in Connemara 🇮🇪

My latest publication in Journal of Agromedicine outlines the development, structure & roll out of the social initiative for older farmers I am leading called Farmer's Yards, piloted at Mountbellew Livestock Mart, & due to be launched in Pennsylvania, U.S.A. later this year 🇮🇪🇺🇲

[SUMMER SERIES]Farm transitions can be fraught with challenges at the best of times. New research offers insights for how existing attitudes towards #succession should change. country-guide.ca/features/you-f… #CdnAg #farmsuccesion #yourfarmyourconversation Corey Mackenzie Shane Conway