Mike Brady

Mike Brady Nuffield Ireland Scholar 2004

Mike Brady is a well-established agricultural consultant and land agent advising landowners on farm business and property matters across the country.

He qualified from UCD in 1987 with a BAgrSc(hons) and commenced his career as a Dairy Husbandry Advisor with the then Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food in the UK.

He returned to Ireland in 1989 to work as an Agricultural Consultant in a private firm and left in 1995 to establish Brady Group. He is a career agricultural advisor/consultant having worked in two countries and in both the public and private sectors.

He completed a Nuffield Scholarship in 2004, where he studied advisory services in France, Australia and New Zealand. This provided Mike with an exposure to global agriculture. He became a board member in 2020.

Mike is a past National President of the Agricultural Consultants Association of Ireland (ACA) and he also writes a column in the Farming Independent and is a regular commentator on agricultural matters.

Mike joined the Nuffield Ireland board in 2020 and is Nuffield Ireland’s representative on the Nuffield International Board.

A Strategic Framework for the Future of Irish Dairy Farming