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.