Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 26 September 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Future of Tillage Sector: Discussion
4:00 pm
Mr. Clive Carter:
Deputy Kenny raised a point about what we require while Deputy McConalogue raised the issue of where we saw the malting barley producing €60,000 per acre. Mr. Kelly will back me up regarding malt. It is based on the amount of pints of Guinness or such that we get from a tonne of barley and the tonnes of barley the average yield or what people can produce. We get over 10,000 pints from a tonne of malting barley. Many people are hoping for a crop of above three tonnes per acre so it is 30,000 pints, whatever that adds up to. We have been getting that figure from excise duties on whiskey.