Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 3 February 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Dairy Industry (Resumed): ICOS and Positive Farmers

2:00 pm

Photo of Thomas PringleThomas Pringle (Donegal South West, Independent)
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I understand that Ireland is grass rich. Is that not the case? The far right-hand side of the graph is based on cattle that are housed all year round and fed grain. How much more can we squeeze out of it without consolidation and rationalisation within farms, reducing the number of farmers and making farms bigger?