Environment
World Soil Day 2022 – Soils: where food begins
0 World Soil Day 2022 – Soils: where food begins Today December 5th marks the United Nations World Soil Day. The day is marked annually as a means to focus attention on the importance of healthy soil and to advocate for the sustainable management of soil resources. The theme for 2022 is – […]
5 December 2022
Teagasc Climate Action Strategy – The Road Map for Agriculture
0 Teagasc Climate Action Strategy – The Road Map for Agriculture Ireland has set out its commitment to reduce overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 51% by 2030 and achieve climate neutrality by 2050. This meets Ireland’s commitment to the Paris Agreement to keep temperature rise to 1.5°C and is in line with […]
4 December 2022
Growing Wild – Rose Hips and Flowering Ivy
0 Growing Wild – Rose Hips and Flowering Ivy Catherine Keena, Teagasc Countryside Management Specialist takes a closer look at some of our native Irish biodiversity to look out for in the countryside. Rose Hips Look out for bright shiny scarlet red rose hips on the briars of the dog rose. They which […]
4 December 2022
Teagasc Climate Action Strategy – The Urgent Actions
0 Teagasc Climate Action Strategy – The Urgent Actions The climate challenge requires a whole of sector co-ordinated response to move the industry forward. Teagasc, through its MACC curve, has set out how the agriculture and food system can evolve over the short and medium term to meet its climate obligations. To support […]
3 December 2022
Teagasc Climate Centre
0 Teagasc Climate Centre Teagasc is establishing a new virtual Teagasc Climate Centre to co-ordinate climate research and innovation and to accelerate efforts to bring ‘almost ready’ and ‘early stage’ technologies to deployment stage. The three key pillars of the new Climate Action Strategy are: A Signpost Advisory Programme A Sustainability Digital Platform A Virtual National Centre for Agri-food Climate Research and Innovation […]
2 December 2022
Teagasc Climate Action Strategy – Sustainability Digital Platform
0 Teagasc Climate Action Strategy – Sustainability Digital Platform Supported by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM), Teagasc in co-operation with the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) and Bord Bia is building a new digital platform to facilitate a robust whole farm sustainability assessment and ‘counting’ of carbon emissions and […]
2 December 2022
Teagasc Climate Action Strategy – Signpost Advisory Programme
0 Teagasc Climate Action Strategy – Signpost Advisory Programme The Signpost Advisory Programme is a new service which Teagasc aims to make available to all farmers, to allow them to know their current emissions and sequestration, to make a plan to improve, help them with the implementation of the plan, and track progress. […]
1 December 2022
Launch of the Teagasc Climate Action Strategy
0 Launch of the Teagasc Climate Action Strategy The Teagasc Climate Action Strategy 2022-2030 – ‘Supporting Farmers for Climate Action’ has been launched today, Thursday, 1 December by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue TD. Speaking at an event at the Teagasc campus in Ashtown, Dublin, Minister Charlie McConalogue […]
1 December 2022
Update from Tom Tierney, Signpost Programme Tillage Farmer
Update from Tom Tierney, Signpost Programme Tillage Farmer Ivan Whitten, Teagasc Tillage Advisor, Naas caught up recently with Tom Tierney, Ballinafagh, prosperous, Kildare on how the harvest went and autumn fieldwork progress to date on the farm. Tom farms on heavy soils and grows a combination of winter and spring cereals with […]
20 November 2022
Growing Wild – Yarrow and Herb Robert
Growing Wild – Yarrow and Herb Robert Catherine Keena, Teagasc Countryside Management Specialist takes a closer look at some of our native Irish biodiversity to look out for in the countryside. Yarrow Look out for later flowering yarrow, sometimes through to new year. It can be identified all year round by its […]
20 November 2022