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

Professor Gerry Boyle:

That is with the exception of grass. We now have the evidence that we have extraordinary potential. Grass has to be produced for some economic outlet and there is no point in producing grass without the animals to utilise it because, in such a case, it will not be efficient and will create problems. There is a limited possibility in anaerobic digestion and we are going to research it. This is also relevant to tillage people because of the utilisation of the digestate, the end product that emerges from the process.