15 June 2025

Listen: The future of organic tillage

For part two in the series, Environment Edge podcast hosts, Cathal Somers and Deirdre Glynn continue their discussion on organics with Teagasc Organic Crops Specialist, Martin Bourke, and Wicklow tillage farmer, Tommy Delahunt.

Farming in east Wicklow, Tommy Delahunt grows a mix of winter and spring cereals, along with oilseed rape, beans, maize and fodder beet as break crops. Tommy opted for a partial tillage conversion into organic farming on 1^st January 2023 and has just under 17ha in conversion.

Over the course of the podcast, some of the obstacles Tommy had to overcome are discussed, while Martin explains why the real legacy of organic farming will be in the years to come.

Listen in below:

To listen to part one of the Environment Edge with Tommy Delahunt and for more episodes from the Environment Edge, visit here.

Find out more about Tommy Delahunt’s farm here.