EBI-type rating to help in grass variety selection

Assigning economic values to individual grass varieties is the latest technological breakthrough developed by Teagasc in conjunction with the Department of Agriculture.

Ireland now leads the way in this area, bringing farmers a profit-based index, called the Pasture Profit Index (expressed in euro per hectare) for perennial ryegrass cultivars.

A prototype of the Pasture Profit Index was launched last week at the Teagasc Agricultural College, Clonakilty.