Rising to the challenge: How dairy farmers are building more sustainable enterprises

In a pivotal month for Irish agriculture we reports how farmers are meeting the climate change challenge

Brian Rushe runs a large, intensive dairy enterprise, but still makes three main environmental areas —emissions, water quality and biodiversity loss — a priority for his business. Picture: Barry Cronin

You’d think the bigwigs in Agriculture House could use a few other letters of the alphabet when coming up with new acronyms.

Farmers have always been expected to wear many hats but now add to the list two “caps” — whatever could be confusing about that?