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Young Stock Podcast - Meabh Byrne keeping many fires burning

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This week’s podcast sees Wexford resident Meabh Byrne back for a more indebt talk about her career, her masters, and more importantly, being an ambassador for young women to forge a career in agriculture. After a whirlwind year which saw her nominated as a candidate for the Women in Ag ambassador role and fresh from her nomination as a ‘Farm advisor of the Year’ at the national dairy awards, Meabh chats about the positive start she had to farming as a child and how that has developed over the years. She also highlights how dyslexia has not stopped her completing her undergrad and masters, with her job as farm management advisor with Deleval led her to create OneLab as her project proposal, earning her the Agri guild’s Communication prize.

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