28 September 2018 – Teagasc Conference Centre, Ashtown, Dublin

Presentations

Session 1

• Amy Connolly (PDF) – Using Nutrient Management Plans (NMP) to deliver soil fertility advice under GRASS10
• Brian Duggan (PDF) – Determine how to improve Knowledge Transfer in Integrated Pest Management on tillage farms
• Emma Swan (PDF) – Dissemination of best practice management for rush control
• Gavin Doherty (PDF) – The BGDP Scheme
• Peter Linden (PDF) – Decision support tools for farmers on water quality analysis

Session 2

• James Lynch (PDF) – Alignment of education planning and choices to longer term business and succession needs on dairy farms
• Kevin Cunningham (PDF) – Engaging Agricultural Students: The influence of Course Design and Teaching
• Lorraine Delahunty (PDF) – Evaluation of future role of and support for practical learning

Session 3

• Cormac Brennan (PDF) – The implementation of NMP recommendations by a targeted dairy discussion group
• Oisin McGlynn (PDF) – Engaging the middle 3rd of dairy farmers – Glanbia joint programme
• Padraig Fogerty (PDF) – An examination of why dairy farmers who were trained in grass measuring during their role as Monitor Farmers discontinued the use of this technology
• Philip Kennedy (PDF) – How can agricultural extension services support Irish dairy farmers using AMS systems
• Rachel Spillane (PDF) – Improving profit on winter milk farms – use of a co-design approach to enhance KT packages
• Suzanne Groome (PDF) – Dairy farm employment – perspectives of employers and employees

Session 4

• Anne Marie Flanagan (PDF) – Dairy discussion groups, social capital and resilience
• Elaine Clifford (PDF) – Evaluating KT groups in the tillage sector
• Fergus Bogue (PDF) – WhatsApp as a Knowledge Transfer Tool for Dairy Discussion Groups
• Marie Flynn (PDF) – Investigation into the use of WhatsApp group chats to transfer knowledge to beef farmers in Ireland”
• Michael McGonigle (PDF) – Evaluating KT groups in the beef sector

Session 5

• Ciara O’Donovan (PDF) – Proxy indicators for farm profitability and efficiency measurement for Knowledge Transfer
• Jayne Smyth (PDF) – Commercial agronomists – their role in the AKIS
• John Moriarty (PDF) – Develop and assess digital and visual tools for Knowledge Transfer in the pig industry
• Kathleen Lonergan Erickson (PDF) – The thinking process of innovative and entrepreneurial farmers