Lough Neagh has suffered from ‘decades of agricultural runoff’ – study – Agriland.ie

There’s only really a handful of places you can even go to Lough neigh like at Oxford island and up near Lough beag up at Toome at the locks. It’s very much out of sight out of mind. The rest is all fields and private access only.

Dairy expansion is getting a lot of bad credit for this and rightly so.

But it appears to me that poultry farming – both egg and for meat is getting off incredibly light here in terms of shouldering responsibility for the crisis we are in.

As all of ireland has seen dairy expansion and the intensification of land use which goes with it.

The north has seen a massive rise in poultry production, hen manure contains 3x the level of nitrogen cow manure has and the expansion of the poultry sector in the North appears to me to be a lot higher than in the south.

This expansion is combined with a lack of facilities for dealing with this waste and this is the fall out from it

You can imagine how behind environmental enforcement has been with a disfunctional executive going back years