'Potential to enhance carbon sequestration without reducing grass productivity'
Teagasc says that agriculture is 'ideally placed' to increase carbon sequestration. Picture: David Creedon, Anzenberger.
The effect of deep ploughing of grassland soil on increasing soil carbon sequestration was recently investigated as part of an international project across multiple sites in Ireland, Germany and New Zealand.
Soil carbon sequestration is recognised in the National Climate Action Plan as an important strategy to off-set increases in atmospheric greenhouse gas emissions and according to Teagasc, agriculture is ideally placed to help increase sequestration.
