Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Education and Upskilling in the Agriculture Sector

Professor Karina Pierce:

I could not give an answer on that now. I know that when we look at our carbon footprint, I would always benchmark it against the carbon footprint Teagasc releases from published research such as that from earlier this year by Dr. Laurence Shalloo. We would compare very favourably with that. We might have a higher output cow and we are maybe feeding more to achieve that, but one balances the other because with the output per kilogram of product we are diluting over a greater output from the cow. We would have a carbon footprint of-----