Andrew Nicholson, County Down farmer
About Andrew: Andrew farms alongside his grandparents in Northern Ireland. They have a herd of dairy cows, as well as a suckler herd. They finish all the stock on farm and have also put in barley, wheat and more recently beans.
Andrew took part in The RCF’s Farm Resilience Programme, which provides free business and environmental training to help farmers get a better handle on their finances and operations.
Our impact
Andrew said: “The Royal Countryside Fund has been of huge benefit to us through the Farm Resilience Programme, through which we carried out a range of workshops to allow us to understand where our business currently is and discuss where we want to be.
“This also helped me gain insight into the important parts of the farm that we don’t often focus upon, it isn’t all about running about after stock and driving tractors as nice as that would be!
“It allowed me to look in depth into our farm accounts, get to know our figures and reduce costs where we felt money was being wasted.”