Agriculture
- Farming in Dungourney:
The 3 main types of farming that take place in Dungourney are tillage, beef, and dairy. The main type of farming is dairy which involves farmers milking their cows on their farms and then the milk truck comes and collects the milk every second day. Beef farming involves farmers rearing cattle to approx 2 years of age to supply beef to the local meat factories. Tillage farming involves planting crops of wheat, barley and maize to be harvested and sold to local feed mills and in turn sold back to the beef and dairy farmers .
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