Advantages of collaboration
Collaboration has a long tradition in rural Ireland, just look at coops and neighbours helping each other at the harvest. Collaboration provides both social and financial benefits. Identified benefits of collaboration include.
- Improved economies of scale leading to increased profits
- Increased leisure time
- Better social and family life
- Improved work environment and reduced work load
- Reduced stress through shared decisions and companionship
- Reduced investment risk and better decision making
- More efficient use of fixed costs
- Operational farms have higher economic, social and environmental value
- Expansion, succession planning and farm progression facilitated
- Improved farm safety