Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 3 October 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Future of Tillage Sector in Ireland: Discussion

5:00 pm

Mr. John Spink:

Essentially, this is related to the total tonnage of dry matter they produce. We have not formally quantified it but it would be very easy to do as we have all the data. Deputy Fitzmaurice suggested we could not produce biomass efficiently but we can produce some of the highest biomass yields in the world in our drought-free climate, with our long summers and neither very high nor very low temperatures. We can produce large quantities of any crop, be it grass or crops, and this is why we have the highest wheat yields in the world.

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