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28 January 2021 Type Event Proceeding On a recent Farm Business Options Webinar, which took place on Tuesday, 26 January, host, Barry Caslin, Energy & Rural Development Specialist, Teagasc was joined by Grainne Blount, Natural Forces; Tom Marren, Astatine and Rory Mullan, MullanGrid Consulting to discuss the options for Irish farmers connecting to the Grid. On-site generation of renewable electricity has become an element of many farming businesses across Europe. To encourage deployment...

Tuesday, 26 January   This session hosted by Michael Gottstein, Head of Sheep Knowledge Transfer, Teagasc, delivered a strong New Zealand influence as Teagasc Walsh Scholar Nicola Fetherstone gave an update on the INZAC trial in Athenry which compares one-star and five-star Irish ewes with elite New Zealand ewes. Hear how New Zealand ewes surpassed the performance of both Irish groups for litter size, ewe survival, lambing dystocia and lamb vigour. The conference also heard from Prof. Paul K...

Type Event Proceeding The Spring Tillage Webinars took place across two sessions on Tuesday, 19th and Thursday 21st January. The webinars covered a wide range of topics including spring cereal varieties; straw incorporation scheme; GLAS and biodiversity on tillage farms; BREXIT implications for the tillage industry; Optimising the use of Organic manures and Beans. Session One - Tuesday, 19 January | 11.30am A live interactive webinar with Teagasc Tillage Specialists and Advisors who covered th...

20 January 2021 Type Event Proceeding On a recent Farm Business Options Webinar, which took place on Tuesday, 19 January, host, Barry Caslin, Energy & Rural Development Specialist, Teagasc was joined by Liam Donohue, Technological University Dublin (Hemp Insulation); Alan Jackson, farmer grower and Killian McGrath, Remedy Health to discuss the opportunities for Industrial Hemp in Irish Agriculture. This webinar gave an insight into the various uses for industrial hemp and its impacts on...

19 January 2021 Type Event Proceeding The live webinar at which 15 finalists of the Grassland Farmer of the Year competition were profiled, category winners and the overall winner announced On Tuesday, 19 January, the Grassland Farmer of the Year Awards Ceremony took place as a live webinar. During this live webinar, the 15 finalists were profiled and winners of each category along with the overall winner were announced. Caroline Walsh from Ballinascarthy, Co. Cork was announced as the...

15 January 2021 Type Event Proceeding Once a Day Milking Conference 2021 took place virtually on Thursday, 14 January. The theme of this year’s online conference centred on the latest research about the impact of once a day milking on milk production and how to manage this effect. Speakers at this conference included: Emer Kennedy, Teagasc Moorepark; dairy farmer MJ Delaney and Nick Sneddon, Fonterra. Once a Day Milking is currently only practised on around 200 Irish dairy farms. B...

06 January 2021 Type Event Proceeding Presentation by Dr. Deirdre HennessyTeagasc, Animal and Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Moorepark, Fermoy, Co. Cork at the Irish Grassland Association (IGA) Virtual Dairy Conference which took place on Wednesday, 6th January 2021.

06 January 2021 Type Event Proceeding Fourth of five Research Insights Webinars, which took place on Wednesday, 6th January 2021, focused on Land Use - Making the most of our land. Land use mapping is an important tool to account for changes in land use over time allowing the human-environmental interactions associated with land use change to be accounted for. Teagasc researchers on this webinar gave an insight into the latest techniques being used that allow us to better understand la...

22 December 2020 Type Event Proceeding In this edition of Lets Talk Poultry Webinar Series which took place on Wednesday, 16 December, host Rebecca Tierney, Teagasc Poultry Advisor was joined by Michelle Burke, Senior Poultry Nutritionist, Devenish to discuss poultry nutrition - time to take stock. Michelles presentation was followed by a questions and answers session. View webinar recording below

18 December 2020 Type Event Proceeding On this episode of The Signpost Series Webinar which took place on Friday, 18 December, Mark Gibson, Teagasc ConnectEd and Pat Murphy, Head of Environment KT, Teagasc were joined by Alan Matthews, Trinity College Dublin to discuss emerging trends in EU policy - CAP, Green Deal, Farm to Fork.