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East meets West - Irish Farmer's Journal
East meets West. February 2005.
Tom Bermingham, manager of Farm Solutions Limited, a subsidiary of The Solution Group in Wexford, travels to Eastern Europe every few weeks to interview experienced workers for full-time positions on Irish dairy, tillage and pig farms. His aim is to match employees to the specific needs of individual Irish farmers.
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| Anti-Racist Workplace Week - Irish Farmers Journal - 4th November 2006
Satisfaction in Drangan
By Tom Bermingham – Farm Solutions Ltd – November 2006
Occasionally, the issue of racism in Irish farming raises its ugly head.
Racism can take many forms, ranging from harassment, paying below the minimum wage, offering and charging for unacceptable living accommodation etc.
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Foreign Farm Labour - Irish Farmers Journal - 15th July 2006
Tom Bermingham – Farm Solutions Ltd
Foreign Farm Labour - Demand continues to exceed supply
Two years ago, I wrote in the Journal about my journey through rural areas of Hungary and Slovakia in search of suitably skilled English speaking farm workers. This journey continues and in the intervening period has expanded into Poland and Lithuania.
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| Slovakia and Hungary - Irish Farmers Journal, 2004
Tom Bermingham, Manager of Farm Solutions Ltd – The foreign farm labour specialists based in Enniscorthy, has just returned from a recruitment campaign in Slovakia and Hungary. Tom was interviewing rural people from both countries who are hoping to come to Ireland to work on modern dairy and pig farms.
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Irish farming links with Ukraine
The ongoing lack of sufficient numbers of interested people willing to work on Irish farms has led to a Co Wexford company visiting The Ukraine, where they found such people in abundance.
While Farm Solutions Ltd have been bringing workers from Czech Republic to some of Ireland’s top farms for the past 2 years, this is their first time recruiting practising farmers from Eastern Europe.
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