Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: We are shooting ourselves in the foot by not supporting Irish tillage
Irish dairy, in particular, is risking huge reputation damage to our ‘sustainable, grass-fed’ model by feeding imported grain to our livestock. Then there’s the straw shortage...
‘Buying cheaper meal from the continent would mean betraying Irish tillage farmers, who now more than ever need our support’. Photo: Roger Jones
It was with some shock and consternation that the reality of pulling back on meal for the dairy contingent hit home during the deluge last week.
It turns out that all those things advisors and others said about dairy cows being like a fine-tuned machine were completely right.
