Northwest only 10% behind for grass yield

Where is the most productive land in Ireland?

But new information, revealed at the recent Moorepark open day, showed the gap in productive potential between so-called “good” farming counties and those in the North and West is not nearly so large as we have believed.

Back in the 1970s, when John Lee from the National Soil Survey compared potential stocking rates of soils, soils most prevalent in Cork and Waterford had the highest grazing capacity, of 227 livestock units per 100 ha (with application of 48 kg of nitrogen).