August 4, 2021 9:57 am
L-R: Donal Santry, Shinagh chair; Minister McConalogue;
Christopher O’Sullivan;
Cormac O’Keeffe; Enda Buckley; John McNamara; and
Jason Hawkins
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue visited a “landmark project” dubbed the Farm Zero C – which aims to create a “world-first climate neutral dairy farm”.
The project is being run by Carbery Group and BiOrbic, and operates at Shinagh Farm in west Cork, a demonstrator farm, previously focused on demonstrating profitability and efficiency.
The farm is owned by the four west Cork co-ops and run in partnership with Teagasc.
With Farm Zero C having recently been awarded a €2million grant in prize money from Science Foundation Ireland’s Zero Emissions Challenge, work is now underway on hiring researchers, a project manager and a farm researcher for the project, Carbery group says.
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