Cork farmers will have no choice but to cull cows under climate plan
Farmers Gavin and Trevor Crowley on the family farm is Lissarda, Co. Cork. Photograph: Daragh McSweeney/Provision
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The farm deal agreed between the Minister for Environment, Eamon Ryan and the Minister for Agriculture, Charlie McConalogue, looks like giving farmers no option but to cull animals if targets for greenhouse-gas-emission reductions are to be met, an award-winning mid-Cork farmer has warned.
Trevor Crowley, who won a Bord Bia Dairy Origin Green Farmer Award in 2018, said he was “gutted” when he saw the detail of the proposed deal agreed by Minister Ryan and Minister McConalogue, which seeks to achieve a 25-per-cent reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions from farming by 2030.
