Mr. Jonny Greene:

Yes and no. We started in the tillage sector but livestock guys have come on board. Holistic grazing methods, such as on wet ground where there might be a sward beneath, are being employed, as are carbon sequestration measures such as trampling grass. That might seem obscene to some people as it might waste it but we have to feed the livestock below ground as well as that above ground. If one can get the biology working below ground, that is, the worms, it will give something back. I grow herbal leys for my suckler herd and the cattle are very content with that. They are much happier than they are in a monoculture or a rye grass ley.

Mr. O'Flaherty mentioned herbs and we are growing chicory, plantain and other things which are natural wormers. Livestock farmers can reduce the amount of wormers they use in this way and this has an impact on top of using more legumes in the system. There is a livestock gain from fewer wormers and less nitrogen in the system