This week, Martin Merrick talks to Ava Moffitt who combines college life with helping run a suckler and sheep enterprise, a pub and the families but livestock mart in Manorhamilton.

If you want something done ask a busy person they say. In that case, asking Ava Moffitt to do something would be a wise choice, but she has enough irons in the fire as she is. Between lambing ewes and calving cows on the home farm in spring to working behind the family pub, then jumping back in to the boots to help run the family owned Manorhamilton mart, it’s a wonder Ava has time to complete her degree in ATU Letterkenny, but the young Cavan woman somehow manages.

We chat about what it was like to grow up in a mart and how both her and her siblings have taken on more responsibility as the years go on, with Ava heading up the ever growing Christmas fatstock sale. 

Aside from all her commitments to home and college, Ava is also one of the select few young sheep farmers chosen to take part in Kepak’s Young Sheep Farmer Forum which we also discuss.

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