Dr. Patrick Cashman

Well, at Goldtop specifically, we have an exciting partnership with the Childless Forage Breeding Programme that's operated in Carlow, where they are now developing cutting-edge new clovers.

So the first of those only came into the market last year.

So what these clovers do is that they can...

they're more efficient at fixing that nitrogen from the air into the plant usable form.

And they're basically fitting the Irish system.

So say if you went in Ireland 10 years ago, some of the clover genetics we were using in this country were coming from as far away as New Zealand.

Now we're in a position where

clovers are developed within the the irish environment for the irish farmer the irish system because the specifics of our system are very specific to ireland so again it's it's kind of highlighted in what the commission has said to basically to for countries to identify the strengths that they that they have um and i suppose like we have now clovers that maybe grow better in the cooler months of the year in the spring they're more persistent

They're higher yielding.

And again, this output point can't be understressed because the output is what drives the whole agri-food system.

All the exports, all the jobs, all the food supply that basically maintains our food prices, that is what output is critical.

And output is what nitrogen gave us in the past.

But now, we shouldn't waste a good crisis, effectively.

And we now have to innovate and do things better.

Of course, look, change doesn't happen overnight.

It'll happen intermittently.

Look, before these crises, because environmental or clover...

has multi-faceted advantages.

Clover has been introduced from the point of view of greenhouse gases, water quality.

Now it has become more critical because we see that we have a nitrogen supply issue.