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The Irish Timber Growers Association (ITGA) has called for forestry to be represented in the Department of Agriculture carbon farming working group.
A Teagasc conference heard that expectations on carbon farming should be managed to avoid over-promising its income opportunities to farmers.
In response to a question from Jackie Cahill TD, Minister McConalogue said he would look at including farm organisations in the carbon farming working group.
Fergal O’Sullivan spoke with Tipperary native, John Moloney, product manager at Kubota Australia, to discuss the Australian agricultural machinery industry.
The Carbon Farming Working Group has a lot of industry representation but farmers are in short supply.
The 'exclusion' of the farm organisations from the working group was described as 'hugely disappointing' by the ICMSA.
There is a definite absence of certainty around the ownership of carbon credits and the ability to trade them.
An initial €40m in funding for capital grants was announced as part of the strategy.
