Year-on-year growth has been seen by Meade Farm in the organic sector since 2015, with the Lobinstown, Co. Meath-based company increasing its organic growing by 12% this year and adding a second harvester to the fleet to allow for these additional organic growing acres, as Caroline Allen reports for Agriland.
“Demand by the younger cohort for organic produce is partly driven by the perception from sources such as the EU Green Deal that organic farming is better for the environment,” contended Robert Devlin, general manager, Meade Farm.
“Soil health is always a top priority for us, so we are using more and more regenerative ag in terms of crop rotation and bio-fertilisers on both our organic and conventional crops.
“To reduce crop inputs in our conventional crops, we’ve also just bought an Amazone sprayer with individual nozzle control which lets us operate with greater accuracy, using smaller width-part sections for headlands,” Devlin said.
He continued: “Between this new nozzle type and the use of GPS guidance systems, we’ll be able to reduce areas of overlap by up to 85%. This is good for the soil, and for the environment.”
Source: Agriland. Read the full story here
Image: Philip Meade jnr. and Robert Devlin in the field at potato harvest time. Credit Agiland
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