Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

No, it is not. The poorest performing output in terms of beef and profitability is the high-fertiliser one-sward yield. The next best performing is the clover sward and the highest performing animals are on the multispecies sward. Looking at the amount of dry matter grass that is being grown, it is similar. The highest amount of dry matter grass is coming from the multispecies sward. Next is the clover and least is the ryegrass, which is very well farmed. It is what we would have known as technically very good farming but it has less dry matter. In the multispecies sward the animals are going to slaughter earlier. They have an earlier slaughter date, meaning there is less methane from that as well. There are fewer inputs because there is no chemical fertiliser and there is also better health.