‘If you don’t get your soil sampled, you could be throwing money away on fertiliser and slurry’
Cavan soil sampler Caoin McCabe explains why the service he provides is so useful, why he thinks sampling will soon be mandatory for every farmer and why he would have emigrated if it wasn’t for Macra
Soil sampler Caoin McCabe on his beef farm at from Poles, Co Cavan. Photos: Rory Geary
It’s the busiest time of the year for Cavan-based soil sampler Caoin McCabe as he races against time before the end of the sampling season.
Farmers need their soil management plans before they start spreading chemical fertiliser or slurry, says Caoin; once they start spreading, soil samples can’t be taken as the results would be inaccurate.
