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Walking through woodland is good for us — often called ‘forest bathing’, the physical and mental health-giving benefits it bestows are well known.
RTÉ Investigates: Dairy’s Dirty Secret has put calf welfare back into the spotlight. The programme shone a light on some unacceptable practices in marts, breaches of transport legislation on the continent, and the slaughter of calves.
There has always been a focus on water quality on the farm, which is in the catchment of the Begerin stream. Under the Water Framework Directive it is deemed as having moderate/at risk water quality.
Sometimes a story seems so strange that you can’t quite believe it’s real. This is how I felt when I heard that daffodils were the latest wonder-plant being fed to cows to reduce methane emissions.
Some €50 million in funding is to be provided to farmers to adopt measures on their farms to improve water quality.