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How to get a green cert?

  • 21-06-2017 07:59AM
    #1
    Redfence74
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26 ✭


    Hi maybe posting in wrong place but here goes ..worked on family farm when I was younger but left to go and work in Dublin and stopped farming just helping out the odd time I am now 42 and living back home i am interested in taking over the farm but have no green cert or papers and really no idea where to start ...


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  • #2
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,835 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Hope you don't mind putting your post in a new thread.

    Teagasc would be a good place to start, find out where the local office is.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #3
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,948 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    At 42 would the green cert be much use ??

    What size of farm, what sort if farming, how well modernised, will this be full time income, who's running it at the moment??


  • #4
    The part time boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 610 ✭✭✭The part time boy


    If he went for tams grants does he not need it .

    I also not be surprised if in the future they could link single farm payments to green certs .

    And finally and don't laugh but the op might learn something new if he does the course


  • #5
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    _Brian wrote: »
    At 42 would the green cert be much use ??

    How very very dare you sir!!!! If it educated a lad to stop making silly mistakes for the next 20 years wouldn't it be worth it! :D


  • #6
    J.O. Farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,578 ✭✭✭J.O. Farmer


    Muckit wrote: »
    How very very dare you sir!!!! If it educated a lad to stop making silly mistakes for the next 20 years wouldn't it be worth it! :D

    Yeah but lesson 101 isn't "Why not to be a farmer" so there's that idea out the window.


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  • #7
    Bullocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,893 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    I'd say give teagasc a call , I signed up to do it this year and it's being run by GRETB if you're in the west so could check with them aswell .
    Will it still qualify you for stamp duty exemption if you're over 35 ?


  • #8
    Redfence74
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26 ✭Redfence74


    To the following posts...won't be my only income....thinking of a suckler heard ...or maybe beef...buying in young .keeping for a while than factory...not a modern farm but do have a slatted shed ...and hoping u can teach an old dog new tricks...being doing my current job for 20 yrs...need a change...and at the end of the day I enjoy it....I know u could say rose tinted glasses and all that


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