TResearch
2024
Entrepreneurial excellence Over the past three years Teagasc has made significant strides by partnering with various organisations to nurture entrepreneurial skills for the future leaders of the agri-food sector. Programmes like Food Works support entrepreneurs to innovate, scale and grow their companies, leading to significant global development opportunities. Photo credit: Fennell Photography […]
Full of beans As plant-based diets gain traction, Ireland is shifting its focus to high-quality plant proteins, notably faba beans. With production increasing, these beans promise soil enrichment, sustainable farming and advanced meat alternatives. Animesh Singh Sengar from Teasgasc Ashtown sets up the screw profile of pilot-scale extruder. Photo credit: Teagasc In […]
This little piggy went to market Joint research by Teagasc and Queen’s University Belfast suggests that consumers displaying characteristics including a high level of moral responsibility are more likely to buy high-welfare assured pork. Positive characteristics of higher welfare Irish pork could be included on product packaging to appeal to consumers’ perception […]
Pack to the future At Teagasc Ashtown’s Food Research Centre, Research Officers Lael Walsh and Shivani Pathania are at the forefront of fighting food waste and future-proofing food packaging with their Leaf No Waste project. For protecting resources and food security, it’s important to come up with viable methods for fighting […]
Celebrating AGRIP Looking back at two decades of contributions from the Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Programme at Teagasc, driving positive developments across the agri-food industry. Teagasc’s Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Programme (AGRIP) strives to make an impact to the agri-food sector by bringing together several streams of work […]
Events: my take-home message Teagasc’s researchers attend many events throughout the year, sharing the findings from their research with national and international audiences. Here, we capture the take-home messages – key pieces of information that our researchers want people to remember – from recent events. Event: Teagasc Forestry Open Day, at Teagasc, […]
The Irish frog Field biodiversity is often unsuspected, especially when the diversity of habitats can support a large diversity of species. Amphibians are indicators of the ecosystem’s health. They are very sensitive to pesticide and other environmental perturbation. Over the last few years, they have massively declined. However, they are very important […]
Beef and to the point For Teagasc’s dairy-beef research and KT programme, Research Officer Nicky Byrne and Walsh Scholar Jenny Abbott, DairyBeef500 Programme Manager Alan Dillon and Programme Advisor Fergal Maguire explain how their work supports Ireland’s world-class beef production systems. Can you explain the team’s role? Nicky: Over the past 10 […]
Beefing up the data Decision-support tools can facilitate more sustainable beef-on-dairy systems. The dairy and beef sectors are intrinsically linked. Approximately 75-80% of calves originating from the dairy herd are destined for slaughter; many are purchased at less than six weeks old. Since dairy farmers are often not directly impacted by the […]
Graze on end Grass varieties can now be evaluated on commercial grassland farms in Ireland; this system gives grassland farmers more relevant information regarding how varieties can contribute to their farms over time. On Irish grassland farms, perennial ryegrass is the most important forage as it provides large quantities of high-quality forage […]