This Ask the Farmer session includes an interview with Roscommon farmer, Mervyn Auchmuty and then an open Q&A session where the audience was allowed to about farming for nature on his farm, with a focus on practical management advice. Mervyn manages a 500-acre mixed cattle and tillage farm with his father along the shore of Lough Ree, Co.Roscommon. The farm uses a low disturbance strip till system to protect soil structure, increase earthworms, reduce leaching and prevent soil erosion. They use cover crops which are then mulched on top of the soil as a green manure. Additionally, slurry has been spread using a low-emission system for the last 10 years in intensively farmed areas of their land. Mervyn’s is a good example of a farm that is making the transition from intensive methods of spraying to working with nature whilst not effecting the yield.
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Aired and recorded on the 13th July 2020. Interviewed by Brigid Barry, Project Manager, Farming For Nature (info@farmingfornature.ie) and Dr Brendan Dunford of The Burren Programme, co-founder and volunteer with Farming For Nature.
