Reducing emissions will increasingly fall on farmers

Measures needed to bridge the 5.4m tonnes gap between 2020 emissions for agriculture (21.4m tonnes) and the target for 2030 (16m tonnes)

Measures to reduce methane from livestock include milk recording to increase from 50% to 90% of dairy herds, and suckler cattle weight recording from 30% to 70%.

Agriculture's share of Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions was updated to 37.1% in the recent first Progress Report on the Climate Action Plan 2021.

It revealed that most of the heavy lifting to reduce emissions from October 1, 2021, to the end of March 2022 was done by the Government and its agencies.