The cream of the crop honoured as suppliers decide up CellCheck awards

A GROUP of 73 Drinagh milk suppliers obtained their CellCheck awards at an occasion hosted by Drinagh Co-op lately. 

As a result of pandemic, this was the primary CellCheck Milking for High quality awards presentation for Drinagh in three years and it was held on the O’Donovan Rossa GAA pavilion in Skibbereen.

CellCheck is the nationwide mastitis management programme, coordinated and facilitated by AHI and sponsored by FBD. The awards are given to the five hundred milk suppliers nationally with the bottom weighted annual common somatic cell rely (SCC) for the earlier 12 months’s provide. 

It’s an initiative to recognise and reward the excellence of Irish dairy farmers who’re at present reaching excessive requirements of udder well being on their farms.

Whereas all 16 nationwide co-ops submit information to the Division of Agriculture Meals and the Marine, Drinagh milk suppliers have, in proportionate phrases, constantly punched above their weight in these awards.

The GAA pavilion in Skibbereen was packed, as a big crowd gathered for the night. 

Tim Regan, dairy supervisor, Drinagh, congratulated all those that obtained this very prestigious award and mentioned that Drinagh was happy with the general efficiency.