Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Fodder Shortage Risk Management Measures: Discussion

3:00 pm

Dr. Siobhán Kavanagh:

It is not an easy one. We put in extra storage to beat the nitrates requirements but getting the slurry back to the ground is a problem. Different methods of spreading it might help but traffic ability is still a problem. With the type of machinery, perhaps there will be more umbilical systems and band spreading. I am not an expert in the area at all but we would be looking at systems where a farmer would not have to travel the ground to try to get out with slurry.