Business Operations
Milk:
Barryroe Co-Op purchases 110 million litres of milk annually from the area’s 200 suppliers. This is delivered to Carbery Milk Products which is owned by Barryroe and its fellow west Cork co-op’s, Bandon, Drinagh and Lisavaird and acts as a central processing facility for all four.
The success of this combined venture is evidenced by the fact that the four west Cork Co-Ops continually head the Farmers Journal milk price league each year as independently verified by auditors, KPMG.
Barryroe Co-Op purchases 110 million litres of milk annually from the area’s 200 suppliers. This is delivered to Carbery Milk Products which is owned by Barryroe and its fellow west Cork co-op’s, Bandon, Drinagh and Lisavaird and acts as a central processing facility for all four.
The success of this combined venture is evidenced by the fact that the four west Cork Co-Ops continually head the Farmers Journal milk price league each year as independently verified by auditors, KPMG.
Grain:
Barryroe Co-Op is a major purchaser of grain in the area. It operates a thriving mill, manufacturing forty thousand tons annually, meeting demand from both its dairy and pig customer base.
Barryroe Co-Op is a major purchaser of grain in the area. It operates a thriving mill, manufacturing forty thousand tons annually, meeting demand from both its dairy and pig customer base.
Pork:
Staunton Foods is the major pig purchaser and pork processor in County Cork. It supplies pork to the multiples and the wholesale butcher trade throughout Ireland, the UK and Europe.
Traceability of product is paramount at Staunton Foods and all of its pork is guaranteed Irish and much of its pig supply comes from the Co-op area. The Co-op is involved right along the food chain from supplying farmers with cereal seed, buying their grain at harvest, milling that grain into feedstuffs for its pig farmers, to buying these pigs and processing them at its Staunton Foods processing facility.
Staunton Foods is the major pig purchaser and pork processor in County Cork. It supplies pork to the multiples and the wholesale butcher trade throughout Ireland, the UK and Europe.
Traceability of product is paramount at Staunton Foods and all of its pork is guaranteed Irish and much of its pig supply comes from the Co-op area. The Co-op is involved right along the food chain from supplying farmers with cereal seed, buying their grain at harvest, milling that grain into feedstuffs for its pig farmers, to buying these pigs and processing them at its Staunton Foods processing facility.