{"id":39433,"date":"2025-09-02T21:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T21:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/39433\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T21:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T21:02:12","slug":"cream-rises-to-the-top-as-limerick-dairy-farmers-honoured-at-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/39433\/","title":{"rendered":"Cream rises to the top as Limerick dairy farmers honoured at ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TWO COUNTY <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/limerickleader.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick<\/a> dairy farming families were honoured at this year&#8217;s Kerry Dairy Ireland Milk Quality and Sustainability Awards in the Woodlands House Hotel in Adare..<\/p>\n<p>The Hickey family from Caherconlish (pictured below) and the O\u2019Kelly family, Dromcollogher were both finalists at the prestigious ceremony which celebrates excellence among its milk suppliers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hickey_family_Kerry_milk_awards_ilim_26-08-25_32750369-1756816474151.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Judges also take into account the overall quality and sustainability of their farms.<\/p>\n<p>The Casey family from Causeway, County Kerry, were named the overall winners,\u00a0 becoming the fifth family to receive this prestigious honour since the awards were established.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/breaking-news\/1884410\/revealed-first-rapid-build-modular-homes-land-at-limerick-park.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">REVEALED: First rapid-build modular homes land at Limerick park<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pat Murphy, CEO of Kerry Dairy Ireland, congratulated all participants and highlighted the exceptional work being carried out across the supplier base.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are proud to recognise the Casey family for their achievements in milk quality, sustainability and farm succession.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir focus on breeding, grassland management and environmental stewardship reflects the values we hold at Kerry Dairy Ireland.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProtecting water quality, ensuring animal welfare and reducing carbon emissions are essential to delivering premium dairy products to our customers,\u201d said Mr Murphy.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, the Kerry Agribusiness Milk Quality and Sustainability Award\u00a0 was won by the Fox family for their farm in Bulgaden.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TWO COUNTY Limerick dairy farming families were honoured at this year&#8217;s Kerry Dairy Ireland Milk Quality and Sustainability&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,30212,889,30211,18,13181,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-39433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-caherconlish","10":"tag-county-limerick","11":"tag-dromcollogher","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-farming","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}