Partners

Partners

We provide a range of management services on behalf of our members. As a licenced producer group we are authorised under EU and national regulations to act on behalf of multiple producers, leveraging the collaborative advantages of being producer group.

We provide a comprehensive suite of services:
  • For producers
  • For haulage providers and exporters
  • For butchers and processors
  • For customers
  • For consumers and
  • For the wider public
For our members

By becoming a member, you are immediately contributing to the required structural, organisational and systems changes necessary to change the status quo for the better. We will apply the required legal and standards framework to secure benefits for our members. Our dedicated purchasing group offers reduced costs for farm supplies and services by leveraging economies of scale.
Our dedicated sales and marketing team are actively developing markets, new routes to markets and building individual producer member brands by supplying member branded packaging and quality certified labelling

Our dedicated purchasing group

Offering reduced costs for farm supplies and services by leveraging economies of scale.

  • Reduced fuel costs
  • Reduced insurance costs
  • Reduced renewable installation and energy costs
  • Amongst other farms inputs
  • lab testing and analysis
Partners
Customer sales, marketing & market development

We provide promotional and marketing services for members, developing new markets for Irish beef with a focus on actual quality. We know and understand the characteristics, features and attributes that distinguish Irish Family Farms and differentiate Irish beef. We are not content with high volume and low cost exports for what is a premium grass fed product, produced naturally on small to medium scale family farms.

We actively promote our members product nationally and internationally, entering into supply agreements with customers for a premium product, ensuring true economic sustainability.

General business administration services
  • We provide member driven services to include:
  • Training and CPD
  • Agricultural consultancy services
  • We ensure CAP alignment, payments assistance and assistance with funding initiatives
  • Producer member Quality and Sustainability Management Systems Certification.
  • Carbon quantification and farm specific environmental program management

As a producer group, when you join, you join a single organisation, whereby we can extend our certification and the benefits of certification to all our members as a multi-site certificate. Benefits include:

  • Reduced frequency of site inspections (approx. 1 every 3 years)
  • Reduced cost of certification being a multi-site audit. Members benefit immediately by becoming certified under our sustainability and quality management system based in international ISO standards.

Members benefit from the design and implementation of our producer-oriented and producer-driven management systems, which are built to support sustainable, efficient, and profitable farming operations. Key benefits include:

  • Immediate access to specialist expertise and practical advice
  • Access to GSF’s producer-based, producer-driven business strategy
  • Access to a proven business model developed by and for producers
  • Access to GSF’s sustainability and quality management systems
  • Participation in the GSF producer organisation purchasing group, delivering financial savings through reduced costs from approved suppliers
  • Support from GSF media and communications, advocating on behalf of Irish farmers
  • Access to performance metrics to benchmark, monitor, and improve farming processes and practices
  • GSF management policies, objectives, and planning activities are designed to support continuous improvement and long-term viability, and include (but are not limited to) the areas outlined above.
  • Development of national and international markets
  • Building individual farmer brand and farmer businesses
  • GSF Farm Manager database used to demonstrate:
  • Manage standards conformance and regulatory compliance
    • Manage standards conformance and regulatory compliance
    • Maintenance of traceability requirements from farm to fork.
    • Quantify carbon and off-set against the wider farm. Farm organisation-wide and not just cattle. We quantify CO2e to include, soil, hedgerows, emissions, electricity, energy production, fuel, animal methane, feed, nitrates to provide the full picture and offset against your total farm to provide your carbon footprint. Membership also allows carbon off-setting against carbon negative members.
    • Maintenance of animal health records,
    • Maintenance of animal husbandry,
    • EU CAP scheme alignment (ACRES, others)
    • Maintenance of farm training and development,
    • Maintenance of machinery and calibration,
    • Maintenance of document and records control,
    • Supplier management and maintenance of records,
    • Customer contract management and supply agreements,
    • Farm quality and sustainability performance evaluation.
    • Green-White & Gold, Quality and Sustainability Certification via Multi-site audit, reducing frequency, cost and time required

Green State Farms as a producer organisation will fulfil these management functions on behalf of and in collaboration with you, the farmer member, meaning you don’t have to and so taking the stress out of compliance and conformance.

Additional benefits of membership include preferred member rates for:

  • Processors and butchers nationwide.
  • Insurance providers
  • Energy (MREF / Local Power)
  • Goods and services
  • Ag consultants
  • Fuel
  • Accountancy
  • And many others as we continue to expand

 

Renewable Energy: Green State Farms has partnered with Local Power to bring the benefit of reduced installation costs, reduced cost of equipment and reduced energy costs.
Benefits of membership means our dedicated supplier management function will complete and submit applications for funding and installation on your behalf so you don’t have to. These measures will also contribute to your farms overall environmental performance. As an organisation we will quantify anonymous data on our members performance to reflect the true value of Irish Family Farms and our contribution to economic, social and environmental sustainability.
We have partnered with local power and Micro Renewable Federation to assist farmer members with micro-renewable installations and funding.
Become a producer member now, gain access to likeminded suppliers, farmers and customers to grow and improve your farming business, whilst supporting our mission.

Email now for application and supply agreement terms of service.

For our customers

We provide quality certified, locally produced, grass fed, fully traceable and producer branded product to customer beef specifications. Boxed or on the bone. See our brochure below for a full list of specifications. Support the sustainability of local businesses and the economic, social and environmental sustainability of Irish farming.
Become a customer now, gain access to likeminded suppliers, farmers and consumers, whilst supporting our mission.
Email now for application and supply agreement.

For our partners

Benefit as a member of our national supplier network.

 

We provide quality agreements with processors, licenced butchers, farm business product and service providers. This network allows the GSF producer organisation to leverage synergies across the supply chain to the mutual benefit of all stakeholders.

 

Enter into supply agreement now to leverage synergies across our supply chain.

 

Green State Farms maintain a dedicated supplier management function whose purpose is to identify, select, evaluate and approved eligible suppliers and sub-contractors into our group on the basis of their ability to deliver for our members.

 

By becoming a partner organisation, you become a preferred supplier to producer members.

 

We believe success lies in mutually beneficial long term supplier relationships with key agricultural providers, from beef processors, butchers, insurance providers, energy providers, communications services providers and providers of agri-goods and services.

 

We leverage the benefits of being a licenced producer organisation, to develop relationships and offer value and cost-effective solutions to our members and partner organisations across the farming supply chain.

 

Green State Farms has established a panel of authorised and approved suppliers and sub-contractors who subscribe to our central philosophy and who wish to support our joint efforts. As a purchasing group we are a one-stop-shop who can bring the benefit of our supply chain network.

 

Email now for application and supply agreement terms of service.

For consumers

For consumers we provide quality certified, grass fed, locally produced and branded 100% Irish beef produced to our quality and sustainability standards.

 

We offer branded packaging, labelling and certification so you know you are supporting local producers, ethical and environmentally sustainable production from quality assured Irish family farms. Animals are reared naturally, on a grass fed diet, anti-biotic free.

For the wider public

Our Green, White & Gold standard comprises the three pillars of:

  • Social Sustainability
  • Economic Sustainability and
  • Environmental Sustainability

The three pillars are designed to ensure the requirements, needs and expectations of community stakeholders are provided for.

Farming and farmers as custodians of the land fulfil many important functions from
protecting biodiversity, the soil, rivers, streams, hedgerows to national monuments and animal welfare in addition to supporting local clubs, societies, businesses, schools, towns and villages.

 

Green State Farms recognises the efforts of our farming communities and actively
encourage and support these efforts. Our Farm Manager database provides metrics across a host of Environmental, Social and Governance specifications to build on and communicate the contrinution of Irish farmers to Irish society.

 

Our commitment to full transparency and accountability includes the provision of ESG performance data via our News Feed on our website.