Noel Bardon, news correspondent with the Irish Farmers' Journal discusses rising concerns over the extent of bird flu outbreak. Jerry also spoke to Noel Murphy, ICMSA National Dairy chair from Milltown. Farmers are concerned that the end is nearing for Ireland’s opt-out of the EU Nitrates Directive. Under the directive, farmers have to ensure that the total amount of nitrogen from organic manure applied to their land does not exceed 170kg per hectare per year. Since the 1990s, there’s been a derogation for Irish farmers which allows some of them to use up to 250kg.
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