Teagasc to update soil map

22 May 2009 03:20 PM

During the 1970s and 1980s the agricultural research organisation, Foras Talúntais, began mapping Ireland's soil.

Soils vary in constitution and character, and knowing what lies below can be a great help to farmers and foresters. Teagasc is now going to update and extend the charting of Irish soils using the latest mapping technology to compete in five years work that previously took fifteen.

Under the Irish Digital Soil Information System project, digital data will be combined with information gathered from thousands of soil samples taken from 'auger' points across the country.