Picture snapped in Laois in top three in national competition

A photograph taken in Laois has one second prize in the Teagasc and Tillage Industry Ireland, ‘Tillage Biodiversity Photo Competition’.

First Runner up was Bees, trees and barley was taken by Laois woman Lisa Walsh-Kemmis who lives on a farm which grows barley for the their own famous brewery in Stradbally. One of the three judges of the photo competition, Andy Doyle from the Irish Farmers Journal, was impressed.

“The judges thought that this was an excellent photo that captured the role that wildflowers, in this instance vetch, found in field margins and boundaries, have in supporting pollinators and wider farmland wildlife. The treeline and the woodland in the background also provide a diversity of habitats," he said.

The winning photos were announced on Thursday 19 May by John Spink, Head of the Teagasc Crops, Environment and Land Use programme.

The second runner up above called Scots pine and spring barley was taken by Clinton Brownrigg, Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow.