Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food
Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Clive Carter:
I will come in on the bread question. We can produce the milling wheat for bread. That is no problem. We have done it for centuries. We have been told over the years that we cannot produce the standard for standard white loaves, but research in Teagasc said we do not have any issue with that.
A lot of that is used with soy as well. Funnily enough, we produce perfect wheat for the healthy breads, such as sourdoughs and pizza bases. We produce incredible wheat for all those things. That is often forgotten about. It is because of the standard white batch loaf that we are told we cannot produce the right milling, but if you talk to anyone in the industry, they will say we can produce perfect wheat for it all.