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Farmers outside Ardee, Co Louth encountered a strange sight for the month of December today when they saw a field of grass being cut and baled.
Owner of the field Gavin Carberry explained to the Irish Farmers Journal that it wasn’t traditional grass but Italian rye grass planted as part of the Fodder Production Incentive measure.
He said that although they had been grazing the grass, it had gone too strong so they needed to cut it.
Carberry, who is the ICSA’s tillage chair, said he had sown 80ac of Italian rye grass as part of the scheme and said that overall it had been a good way of building fodder stocks, after the summer drought had led to fears of fodder shortages.
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