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Primary Activities: GDA (Physical Factors (Climate (Frost rare due to…

- - - - Crop growing
  - - - 11% of country's wheat
    - - large regular fields suitable for mechanised farming
    - - Steep slopes&high altitudes not suitable for arable farming
        
        Sheep Farming& Coniferous Plantation
  - - - heats up quickly in spring
      - salad vegetables grown in greenhouses
      - cabbage,onions,potaoes grown in large fields
        
        15% of country's potatoes
    - - Centre of Bloodstock Industry & produces horses for export
      - Curragh (horseracing)
    - - Brown Earth Soils
      - Fertile Boulder Clay
        
        Arable
- - - - VEGETABLES
      - Lower costs than farmers in West of Ireland
  - - - Bread manufacturing, brewing, vegetable canning
      - Buy farm produce in large quantities
      - eg Largo Foods, Ashbourne, Co Meath sources 90% of its ingredients from within 20km of the plant