Shane Fitzgerald - Better Farming for Water

Shane Fitzgerald is a dairy farmer in Portlaw, county Waterford. In this short clip, Shane explains how he wants to leave the environment, and their farm and land in a better place than they got it.
Shane provides an overview of the simple measures that they put in place on the farm, like improving the nitrogen use efficiency by using multi-species swards and clover, as well as fencing off watercourses.
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue T.D., requested Teagasc to lead a multi-actor water quality advisory campaign to deliver clear, simple and positive messaging to enhance farmers’, as well as the broader agri-food industry’s understanding of the agriculture pressures on water quality and the need for improvement. As a result of this request, Teagasc has developed this document ‘Better Farming for Water’ to guide the campaign.
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