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22 April 2021 Type Event Proceeding On a recent Integrated Pest Management Webinar, which took place on Tuesday, 13 April, Eamonn Kehoe, Teagasc was joined by Stuart Mills, IPM Specialist, Fargo Ltd, UK to discuss the new advances in Integrated Pest Management (IPM) for Soft Fruit Crops. Watch webinar recording below This webinar is part of the Teagasc Horticulture IPM and Weed control Series. View the other webinars in the series here 

21 April 2021 Type Event Proceeding Dermot Callaghan, Head of the Horticulture Development Department at Teagasc joined Barry Caslin on this episode of the Farm Business Options Series which took place on Tuesday, 20th April to discuss where are the opportunities in commercial horticulture. With many diversifications struggling during the pandemic, we take a look at the horticulture sector to see if it is an enterprise worth considering. Dermot Callaghan, Head of the Horticulture Devel...

Type Event Proceeding The Teagasc Seed Potato Webinar took place on Thursday, 15th April 2021. This webinar outlined the challenges of imports and the best practices to growing more seed potatoes in Ireland. Seed potato supplies will be affected following UK departure from the EU. Supplies will be difficult to get from 2022 onwards and this provides an excellent opportunity for Irish growers to grow more Irish seed. This webinar outlined the challenges of imports and the best practices to growi...

16 April 2021 Type Event Proceeding On this episode of the Farm Business Options Webinar series which took place on Tuesday, 13th April, Barry Caslin was joined by Elaine Leavy, Teagasc Organic Specialist and Clive Bright, Organic grass only farmer, Sligo to discuss organic farming - steps to conversion and opportunities. Elaine Leavy, Teagasc Organic Specialist gave an overview of the Organic Farming Scheme which is currently open for applications, balancing profit and sustainability...

15 April 2021 Type Event Proceeding On a recent Teagasc Research Insights webinar which took place on Wednesday, 14th April, Michael ODonovan, Head of Grassland Science, Teagasc was joined by Michael Dineen, Research Officer to discuss new insights to feeding dairy cows at pasture. The results from a joint research programme between Teagasc Moorepark and Department of Animal Science, Cornell University were presented by Michael Dineen. Presenter: Panellist: View presentations below

13 April 2021 Type Event Proceeding Are you looking to make better grazing decisions on your farm in April? On this webinar which took place on Wednesday, 7th April, John Douglas & Joseph Dunphy, Teagasc Grass10 and Micheal OLeary, PastureBase Ireland go through how you can use PastureBase Ireland to plan your spring grazing. The Grass10 and PastureBase team gave an update on Spring grass supply & grazing from PastureBase Ireland, as well as tips and advice on managing the 2 nd rota...

13 April 2021 Type Event Proceeding On this episode of the Lets Talk Dairy webinar series, Stuart Childs, Teagasc Dairy Specialist talks to us about bull selection targets. Stuart recaps on an overall guideline that Teagasc have issued to people in relation to the breeding targets for this year. How breeding can influence the direction of your herd will also be discussed. Over the last couple of years, there has been less emphasis put on the selection of bulls and more of a focus put on...

12 April 2021 Type Event Proceeding The third in a series of Teagasc Crop Agronomy Update Webinars took place on Tuesday, 6th April. This webinar covered the major agronomy decisions needed over the coming weeks in winter and spring crops. Researchers, Specialists and Advisors were on hand to answer questions throughout the webinar. Topics covered included Spring barley weed control            Trace Elements and their importance for tillage crops Manganese, Magnesium, Zinc, Coppe...

12 April 2021 Type Event Proceeding Host Ciaran Lynch, Teagasc Sheep Specialist was joined by Dr. Orla Keane, Teagasc Researcher and Michael Gottstein, Head of Teagasc Sheep KT on this episode of the Lets Talk Sheep webinar series which took place on Thursday, 8th April to discuss nematodirus and coccidiosis in lambs. Dr. Orla Keane from Teagasc discussed Nematodirus infection in young lambs. This is very timely as the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) have just is...

09 April 2021 Type Event Proceeding On a recent Integrated Pest Management Webinar, which took place on Wednesday, 7th April 2021, Donall Flanagan, Teagasc Horticulture Development Department was joined by David Davidson, Technical Consultant with Koppert to discuss aphid pest control. David gave an insight into the strategies for aphid control using IPM methods in a range of protected ornamental and horticultural crops. He also introduced the latest developments from Koppert to help in...