Carbury farmer Rushe elected as new chairman of Kildare IFA

Brian Rushe, a dairy farmer from Derrinturn in Carbury, has been elected as the new chairman of the Kildare branch of the Irish Farmers Association at the county's AGM that was held in Newbridge last night.

Rushe is relatively young to hold such a position, but his appointment would seem appropriate to anyone who has read his excellent 'Farmer Writes' articles that are regularly published in the Farmers Journal.

The father of two was a committed suckler farmer up until 2013 before he converted to dairy farming. He is currently part of a massive chain of over 2,200 farms that supplies the Lakeland Dairies company with milk, while he is also in the process of completing a Nuffield Scholarship.

Rushe replaces the outgoing chairman Pat Farrell, who is running for the deputy president position on the board of the Irish Farmers Association. The Athy based suckler and beef farmer is running against Limerick farmer Richard Kennedy and Monaghan poultry farmer Nigel Renaghan for the position.