Elephant grass energyof future, farmers told

ELEPHANT grass has the potential to turn the auld Irish sod into the energy fields of the future.

That became clear at Limerick’s two-day show as farmers lined up to hear more about the economics of growing the high yielding perennial crop, more correctly known as miscanthus.

It has a bamboo like stem, grows to the height of a towering basketball player and can be used to produce alternative energy and other products.