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Leaving Cert Agricultural Science: Catch & energy crops

How often Catch & energy crops comes up on the Agricultural Science papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

HL Asked on 3 of the last 5 Higher Level papers, most recently in 2025. most years

Catch & energy crops, Higher Level(8 marks)

Quick ones on Catch & energy crops.

(a)What is a catch crop?
  1. A crop that lures pests away from the main crop
  2. A fast crop grown between two main crops
  3. A perennial crop grown for fuel
(b)How is miscanthus usually established?
  1. By grafting onto grass
  2. By sowing seed
  3. By planting pieces of rhizome
(c)Why is energy willow cut back at the end of its first year?
  1. To make it send up many shoots (coppicing)
  2. To kill the weeds growing around it
  3. To stop it flowering in its second year
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(a) A fast crop grown between two main crops

(b) By planting pieces of rhizome

(c) To make it send up many shoots (coppicing)

Your turn: Higher Level questions on Catch & energy crops.

Higher Level

Asked on 3 of the last 5 Higher Level papers, most recently in 2025. most years

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2025Q7
2024Not asked
2023Not asked
2022Q10
2021Q5

Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.

More Catch & energy crops questions

Catch & energy crops, 2 marks

What is harvested willow from short rotation coppice mainly used for?

  1. Only as bedding for housed animals
  2. Feeding cattle over the winter
  3. Wood chip fuel for biomass boilers
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Wood chip fuel for biomass boilers

Willow chips are burned in biomass boilers or power stations as a renewable fuel, replacing fossil fuels.

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