When this Kildare farmer’s car broke down on the other side of the world, his life changed forever
Tom Tierney was a conventional tillage farmer until he met a man while he was waiting for his hire car to be fixed in New Zealand. Now he is a passionate advocate of min-till conservation agriculture, with a sideline in selling machinery
Tom Tierney on his 200ac farm outside Prosperous in Co Kildare. Tom’s farm is host to a Eddy Covariance Flux Tower, generating data that provides accurate, long-term information on the carbon dynamics of Irish agricultural systems
Having spent decades running a conventional ‘plough, till, sow’ tillage farm in Co Kildare, a trip to New Zealand in 2014 flipped Tom Tierney’s world upside down in more ways than one.
A chance encounter with a leading manufacturer of no-till drills set Tom on a path of conservation agriculture, and he has since become a leading voice in the area.
