Teagasc/UCD – Knowledge Transfer Conference – Botanic Gardens

Presentations from the conference

Presentations

Session 1: The effective farm advisor

• Peter Grogran – Building effective advisor client relationships (PDF)
• Angela Ryan – Self Efficacy of Ag Advisors (PDF)
• Donal Kelly – Outsourcing and refocusing on core KT work (PDF)
• Aisling Molloy – Engaging women with advisory services (PDF)

Session 2: Digital and visual opportunities for improving KT

• Claire Bambrick – KT Conference presentation (PDF)
• John Moriarty – Visual and Digital Tools for KT in the pig industry (PDF)

Session 3: Groups as spaces and places for farmer innovation?

• Hayden Lalor – The Burren Life Project (PDF)
• Martin Mulkerrins – Groups as spaces and places for farmer innovation (PDF)
• Brian Duggan – IPM the challenge for KT (PDF)
• Conor Holohan – Groups as spaces and places for farmer innovation (PDF)

Session 4: Enhancing agricultural education

• Sinead Flannery – Improving agricultural education (PDF)
• Kevin Cunningham – KT Conference (PDF)
• Grainne McGrath – Enhancing access and participation (PDF)
• Yvonne Grace – Training needs assessment for horticulture sector (PDF)

Session 5: Performance and profitability – what and how to measure

• Ciara O’Donovan – Developing and testing proxy indicators of farm profitability and efficiency measurements for knowledge transfer use on Irish farms (PDF)
• Fergus O’Rourke – Strategic Use of Benchmarking tools (PDF)
• Aileen McCarron – A Study of How Advisors Use Decision Support Tools to Aid Farmer Decision Making (PDF)

Session 6: Challenges and Opportunities to improve KT in the dairy sector

• Ciara Hickey – A study of the factors which influence business satisfaction amongst dairy farm households (PDF)
• Niamh Garvey – Assessing extension methods to promote uptake of computer aided grass management in dairy discussion groups (PDF)
• Padraig Fogarty – An examination of why dairy farmers who measured grass during their role as monitor farmers discontinued the use of this technology (PDF)
• Michael Malone – An investigation into the attitudes of dairy farmers in the Lakeland Dairies region towards the age at first calving of replacement dairy heifers (PDF)
• Wesley Fennell – An examination of categories of dairy farmers in Co. Mayo based on their adoption of certain farming technologies (PDF)
• Redmond McEvoy – The role and value of Teagasc-Industry Joint Programmes for KT (PDF)
• Alastair Pollock – A Knowledge Transfer Approach to Collaborative Farming Structures for the Dairy Industry (PDF)
• Ellen Standish – Farmers Attitudes Towards Management of Workload on Their Farms (PDF)