Catherine Keena joins Emma-Louise Coffey to discuss the benefits of biodiversity for Irish dairy farms.

Catherine explains that biodiversity is all about flora and fauna and the habitats that they live in. Typical examples of biodiversity include hedgerows, watercourses and field margins.

Catherine considers the benefits of biodiversity on dairy farms including income from schemes and marketing of dairy products.

She explains that all farms have a level of biodiversity and encourages farmers to retain, maintain and enhance biodiversity on farms.
 
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