{"id":302866,"date":"2026-02-17T17:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/302866\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T17:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:44:12","slug":"why-this-cork-dairy-farmer-bypasses-the-co-op-and-sells-his-milk-to-shops-coffee-carts-and-cafes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/302866\/","title":{"rendered":"Why this Cork dairy farmer bypasses the co-op and sells his milk to shops, coffee carts and cafes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The Galvins wanted more income from their 160ac farm so they invested \u20ac250,000 in a pasteurising and bottling facility \u2013 and now they are reaping the rewards\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brian Galvin on his home farm in Kilbrittain, West Cork, where he operates his business. Photos: Michael Mac Sweeney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/84c00f1a-df4e-4710-968a-a61db2769a4e.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Brian Galvin on his home farm in Kilbrittain, West Cork, where he operates his business. Photos: Michael Mac Sweeney<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Cork dairy farmer Brian Galvin took a leap of faith when he decided to bypass the co-ops and start selling his milk directly to local businesses. Five years later, he is now using 95pc of the milk his herd of Holstein Friesians produce for the business and only sending the remaining 5pc to the co-op during peak season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Brian says after investing \u20ac250,000 in the venture, what really established his new business was when a friend who owned a coffee cart, The Bean and Berry, at Garretstown Beach, first started buying his milk in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Galvins wanted more income from their 160ac farm so they invested \u20ac250,000 in a pasteurising and bottling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,9609,61,60,83482],"class_list":["post-302866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-dairy-farm-profiles","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tamara-fitzpatrick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}