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08 April 2021 Type Event Proceeding On a recent Integrated Pest Management Webinar, which took place on Tuesday, 30th March, Donall Flanagan and Eamonn Kehoe, Teagasc Horticulture Development Department were joined by Dr Clare Sampson, Technical Director with Russel IPM to focus on traps and pheromones for thrips and pest control. Sticky traps are a well-tested monitoring product. The use of roller traps and pheromones are growing in popularity due to their effective role in pest contro...

09 April 2021 Type Event Proceeding Wendy Conlon, Teagasc Equine Specialist was joined by Andrew Hughes of Ennisnag Stud, Damien Griffen of Lissyegan Stables and Cameron Hanley, international showjumper for the latest webinar in the Lets Talk Equine Webinar Series, which took place on Tuesday 6th April 2021. The discussion centred on the qualities of importance when deciding on which youngsters to invest in for breeding or sport. Also discussed was the production of young horses and the...

11 March 2021 Type Event Proceeding On a recent Farm Business Options webinar which took place on Tuesday, 9th March 2021, host, Bernard Doorley, Teagasc Offaly was joined by three local farmers to discuss agri-tourism and poultry in Cavan. The panellists, Sean Thorton, Cavan Adventure Centre; Pauric McGearty, Carafin Lodge & Margaret Farrelly, Margarets Eggs gave an insight into how they have diversified their family farms into agri-tourism and poultry in order to generate additional i...

10 March 2021 Type Event Proceeding On a recent episode of the Signpost Series webinar, which took place on Friday, 5th March, Mark Gibson, Teagasc ConnectEd is joined by Enda Buckley, Director of Sustainability and Aoife Feeney, Farm Sustainability Manager at Carbery Ireland to discuss the farm sustainability approach at Carbery Group. Farm sustainability from a milk processors point of view was the main topic of discussion. Pat Murphy, Head of Teagasc Environment KT Programme with Tea...

09 March 2021 Type Event Proceeding In this episode of The Signpost Series webinars, Mark Gibson is joined by Paul Wagstaff, Senior Agricultural Advisor with Self Help Africa who speaks about the impact of climate change on smallholder food production in the tropics and the interventions that can be used to reduce the impacts of climate change. Pat Murphy, Head of Teagasc Environment KT Programme with Teagasc also joined the programme. View presentation below

09 March 2021 Type Event Proceeding Are you looking to graze more in March? On this webinar which took place on Wednesday, 3rd March, 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 go through the process of how to maximise the amount of grazing​ this spring to set the farm up for the next rotation and the summer time. The webinar also giv...

05 March 2021 Type Event Proceeding On a recent Research Insights webinar which took place on Wednesday, 3rd March, Donagh Berry, Teagasc Researcher & Director of VistaMilk SFI Research Centre was joined by Teagasc Researchers Sinéad McParland, Áine O’Brien and Fíona Dunne to discuss achieving sustainable genetic gain in farmed animals. The panellists on this webinar give an insight into the process of how genetically elite parents of the next generation are identified and selected...

04 March 2021 Type Event Proceeding The second of the Teagasc Crop Agronomy Update Webinars took place on Tuesday, 2nd March. Teagasc researchers, specialists and advisors updated growers on crop agronomy for the coming weeks. Advice on nitrogen, P&K, PGR and disease control were also discussed. The second event covered crops from across the country including the following: Winter Oats - Nutrition, growth regulation and disease control Winter Barley - Nutrition, growth regulation and...

03 March 2021 Type Event Proceeding On the latest episode of the Lets Talk Dairy webinar series, Stuart Childs, Teagasc Dairy Specialist gives an insight into body condition score at calving in the Spring time. He also outlines what the ideal BCS bracket your cows should be in. The best time to do the body condition score is from now up to the breeding season. Typically the objective of the body condition score is to be within a 3.0 and 3.5 window. Optimum results are achived within thi...

03 March 2021 Type Event Proceeding On a recent Farm Business Options webinar which took place on Tuesday, 2nd March 2021, host Barry Caslin, Teagasc was joined by Helen Doherty, Social Farming Ireland, to outline what anyone considering running a Social Farm enterprise needs to know. Two social dairy farmers, John Murphy from Kildinan, Co. Cork and Jennifer Payne from Tulsk, Co. Roscommon also joined the webinar to give an insight into their experiences to date. A Q&A session took plac...