Over the last number of years questions have been asked about the practices being adopted by todays farmers. Pesticides, herbicides, drugs, growth promoters all now play a major part of modern farming. Working closely with technologists from Greenmount College of Agriculture has proved vital in acheiving this goal.
Spot spraying is now policy on the farm, only where weeds have become a problem.
Complete blanket spraying is avoided. We found it to be the only truly independant welfare scheme. The farm is inspected by Freedom foods own inspectors on a regular basis. Greenmount agriculture college.