Fertiliser firm deal to see Bord na Móna Midlands plant reopen

Chairman of the Oireachtas joint committee on agriculture, food and the marine, Jackie Cahill, told Bord na Móna representatives at a recent meeting that those in the horticulture industry are “extremely worried about their viability and the lack of available horticultural peat for 2022”.

International firm ICL Specialty Fertilizers has secured an agreement with Bord na Móna which will see it expand its operations in Ireland and enable it to supply growing media to professional ornamental growers and plant propagators across the country.

Under the terms of the agreement, ICL will lease Bord na Móna’s professional growing media mixing facility at Cúil na Móna in Co. Laois for an initial period of three years.