Stephen Cadogan: GHG per euro of agricultural output not a very good idea

Farmers were told last week by Teagasc that Ireland has the EU’s second lowest dairy greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint.

Our 1kg of carbon dioxide equivalent per kg of milk is bettered only in Austria, but only by a very small margin.

That compares with an EU average of about 1.4kg, or 1.7kg in Hungary and Romania, 1.6kg in Denmark, and 1.4kg in the Netherlands.