Laois Kildare Offaly
On behalf of Teagasc I would like to welcome you to the newest region in Teagasc, the Laois, Kildare and Offaly Advisory Region section of the Teagasc website. This section gives you full up-to-date information on our region including our staff, our Advisory Programmes and Services, and our Advisory and public events. It also has links to other sections within Teagasc.
The Advisory Service provides a comprehensive range of services.
- One to One Advice to our 3,000 Farmer Clients
- Farm Visits
- Dairy, Beef and Sheep discussion groups– we facilitate over 30 Discussion Groups with some participating 500 Farmers meeting monthly throughout the year
- Public Events – such as Farm Walks, Seminars , Open Days on New and Relevant Topics
- Monthly Newsletters and Bi Monthly Today’s Farm Magazine
- Pasture Base and Grass10
- Dairy Monitor farm with the Teagasc Tirlan Future Farm Programme – 2 monitor farms in the region
- Teagasc Dairy Beef 500 programme – 1 monitor farm in the region
- Teagasc Future Beef Programme – 2 monitor farms in the region
- Teagasc Signpost Programme – 1 pig monitor farm, 1 organic monitor farm and 1 tillage monitor farm
- Technical newletters are sent to all our client’s monthly covering dairy, beef, sheep & tillage.
Scheme Application and Support
- We support farmers through the full range of DAFM and EU farmer schemes
- We guide clients through their obligations, via cross compliance, derogation and similar supports.
Other Short Courses available include
- Special Environment Courses
- Health & Safety Courses
- Cross Compliance Courses
- Farm Forestry
- Organic Farming
- Options Courses
- Grass 10 Courses
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As well as the main farm enterprises improvement in water quality is one of the key strategies of the Teagasc Laois Kildare & Offaly Advisory Service and we have one dedicated advisor to the ASSAP programme to work with all farmers in the Region. This is done in collaboration with industry stake holders such as local Co-Operatives and LAWPRO.
We also deliver the Teagasc Signpost Programme which is a collaboration of stakeholders involved in the Agri Industry. It is aimed at reducing carbon and having a positive impact on climate change and we have two advisors covering this programme. All of our monitor farms in the region are part of the Teagasc Signpost programme and they adopt new technologies to help reduce the greenhouse gas production from agriculture. Each year we host various farm walk events to demonstrate the progress of this work on their farms.
To ensure that you receive notification of these events and lots more going on in our region please contact our staff in one of our 3 offices in Naas, Portlaoise and Offaly.
Sandra Hayes
Regional Manager Laois / Kildare / Offaly