Sustainability
Sustainable Farming is a farming approach that can be sustained into the foreseeable future.
It is a way of farming that:
- will be even more efficient and productive in ten or twenty years than it is today; and
- will maintain and shape our countryside as a high-quality place in which to work and live.
Sustainability can be considered under the three broad pillars, economic, environment and social
Teagasc National Farm Survey 2015 Sustainability Report
Research from Johnstown Castle
- How to include farmland habitats in sustainability assessments (PDF)
- Farming and natural resource measures for ecological sustainability. FARM-ECOS (PDF)
- Phosphorus management in organic soils for sustainable agriculture (PDF)