A young tillage farmer has been declared the overall winner of the Teagasc/FBD student of the year at a ceremony that took place in Co Laois yesterday.
Danny Doyle from Rathangan, Co Kildare, was presented with his award by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue TD.
The Rathangan man completed a two-year, Level 5 Certificate in Agriculture and then a Level 6 Advanced Crops and Machinery Certificate at the Teagasc Kildalton Agriculture College in Piltown, Co Kilkenny.
As part of that he spent five months in the US working on tillage farms in Kentucky and Tennessee.
He currently farms full-time with his parents and uncle on a large scale tillage operation near Rathangan where they grow barley, wheat and oil seed rape. They also keep cattle on the farm.
