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Ballybrado is the best known name in Ireland when it comes to organic competence and authority. In 1983 Josef Finke founded at Ballybrado what later became the core cell of organic agriculture in Ireland.

John McKenna in the Bridgestone Irish Food Guide had this to say in 1996:

A smart government, with a progressive and sensible policy towards agriculture, should take a simple step when it came to developing a workable, sustainable agriculture to take us seemlessly into the next century.
The Minister for Agriculture would get into his black Mercedes, and head down to Ballybrado House, to enlist the services of Joseph Finke. For Mister Finke is a strategist and thinker on organic agricultural matters like not other. His expertise is in marketing, but aside from his clever ideas in this field, he understands the need to make organic agriculture the method of the future, for the sake of the nation's health, for the sake of the nation.
He sees no tension between organic food being slickly, cleverly marketed and he understands that the slow progress of the organic message will soon speed up, as the depredations of conventional agriculture become ever more apparent. Until then, he remains a figure well known in organic circles, thanks principally to his fine Ballybrado flour, but the sheer intelligence and strategic thinking of this man actually belongs into the mainstream. When that black Merc crests his driveway, some day in the future, Joseph Finke's time will have arrived.
"Bridgestone Irish Food Guide", 1996

Through strategic alliances Josef Finke made processing capacities and distribution networks available to organic producers while at the same time maintaining the initiative and authority in marketing development.