Services
What distinguishes and differentiates Green State Farms as a Producer Organisation from any other entity in Ireland is our approach to the provision of management services for our
members.
Crucially our management services are fully aligned to EU market regulations and ISO industry standards. This means there are absolutely no obstacles whatsoever as to what you can do as a farming organisation and economic operator when it comes to placing your produce onto the market
As a licenced Producer Organisation we leverage the benefits of this licence via our producer driven management systems by acting on behalf of multiple farmers to engage all supply chain stakeholders towards a constructive and sustainable long term solution. Our services include:
We build your farm business and develop new markets and routes to market for our members.
Our dedicated customer sales, marketing and customer support function ensures customers are aware of and have access to Irish beef. We can build individual brands for every group member, promoting the inherent quality characteristics, attributes and features of Irish Family Farming that are unrivalled in terms of sustainability and quality due to our natural grass-fed production.
Our sales and marketing function is designed to ensure we not only create new markets, new customers and new routes to market, but we do so through your producer-orientated sustainability and quality management system, which you gain access to when joining our producer organisation. This allows us to deliver on your stated business objectives and business plans as a product of your production processes.
Working by agreement with processors and butchers, we provide branded packaging with your name and logo, ensuring customers and consumers know and understand your process and product, sustaining a market for your product into the future.
All producer organisation members are certified to our ISO-based quality and sustainability management system, ensuring industry, customer and consumer quality and safety standards are achieved.
As a licenced Producer Group, we can bring economies of scale, offering reduced cost for essential products and services.
Our dedicated supplier management function maintains a network of approved and authorised product, processing and service providers available to our members.
We will take the hassle out of compliance and quality assurance by identifying, evaluating, approving and reviewing suppliers and sub-contractors on your behalf while offering reduced costs.
Our Farm Manager database ensures full traceability and document control is maintained.
Our dedicated Business Administration function will act on behalf of our members to ensure all resource management activities are scheduled and fulfilled as necessary for your farm.
Our Farm Manager database ensures full traceability and document control is maintained. The Farm Manager database is individually customised to farmer member organisations, ensuring required controls are reasonable, practical and proportional to risk, given the scale of your farm and that these controls do not place unnecessary economic burdens on you the farmer, as required by law.
As a Producer Organisation, we will manage all regulatory, QA and CAP schemes requirements automatically.
Based on your individual farm resources, we will produce and maintain your farm-specific sustainability and environmental management program. Our Farm Manager database allows us to quantify the carbon on your farm following our initial assessment.
Green State Farms’ Sustainability and Quality Management System tracks your carbon footprint as a proportion of the overall farm and not just methane from cattle. We provide the true picture by offsetting cattle and energy emissions against carbon sequestered in the soil, hedgerows and through renewable installations.
We will actively communicate our collective environmental and sustainability performance in real terms to ensure the public, customers, consumers and other interested parties know and understand the true contribution of Irish Family Farms to the economic, social and environmental sustainability of our country.
We intend to not just provide public recognition of the sustainability and carbon footprint of Irish Family farms, but to ensure you the farmer benefits from carbon credits.
Our dedicated news feed is committed to providing routine updates on our management systems performance. Our team includes a dedicated Science Communication Officer with a ensure the provision of complete, factual and objective metrics to our members and the public.
Our dedicated production team, in consultation with you and if necessary your agricultural consultant, will capture all required details to demonstrate your farm’s compliance with regulations and conformance to ISO Quality Management Standards.
Our Farm Manager database ensures full traceability and document control is maintained.
The use of our Farm Manager database offers multiple benefits to our members, from alignment to CAP schemes (ACRES, SCEP, SIS, BISS, ANC), customer requirements or other QA schemes ensuring eligibility and evidence of implementation. We focus on all actual and practical farming activities based on your business, your organisation, your resources, your plans and your objectives to ensure farmer-based systems as required by law.
We demonstrate factually and objectively on behalf of our members the effectiveness and efficiency of Irish Family farms via our automated Farm Manager database.
Members can be provided access to which will reflect their farm type, scale and the resources available to their production systems. We will maintain all records and allow benchmarking so you can benefit from best practice, amongst a multitude of other direct and indirect benefits.
Our ISO-based sustainable quality, environmental, health and safety and social responsibility management scheme is not a tick-box exercise. As members of Green State Farms, our dedicated management team will proactively drive your business through our integrated management system, putting management systems control back in the hands of farmers as members of our producer group.
Stay informed about the latest CAP updates and funding opportunities, ensuring you maximize available support for your farm’s growth and development.
