The final session of the Beyond the Parlour talks at Tuesday's Dairy Day event will focus on the environmental challenges and solutions facing a growing dairy sector.

How can expanding farms stay within their nitrates obligations? Will greenhouse gas emissions targets create a new quota system?

Join the Irish Farmers Journal's Jack Kennedy and Thomas Hubert from 1.30pm to introduce these issues with John Fitzgerald, chair of the state's Climate Change Advisory Council.

An open discussion between farmers and three specialists will provide answers to the questions above:

  • Noel Meehan from Teagasc will explain how his agency and the Dairy Sustainability Ireland initiative are proposing to help dairy farmers manage nutrients and protect water quality.
  • Food economist Ciaran Fitzgerald will have the facts on climate change and the dairy food chain.
  • John Muldowney from the Department of Agriculture's Climate change and Bioenergy policy Division will address key challenges and solutions to climate change targets for farming.

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