Forestry
Planning towards sustainable timber production at Talking Timber
Planning towards sustainable timber production at Talking Timber Talking Timber, Teagasc’s popular conifer timber marketing event, is taking place today, Tuesday, 23 May in Athlone. This year’s theme ‘Planning towards Sustainable Timber Production’ explores opportunities and challenges how forest owners can adapt their management and strategic planning to best sustainably grow, harvest […]
23 May 2023
Forests and human health and well-being
Forests and human health and well-being Paul Butler, Teagasc Forestry Specialist, tells us about the importance of non-timber values of forests. I was lucky enough to work for several years as a young graduate in a huge forest reserve in the south eastern amazon of Peru. I remember one morning meeting a […]
19 May 2023
Talking Timber 2023: Networking to maximise timber sales outcomes
Talking Timber 2023: Networking to maximise timber sales outcomes Selling timber can be both a rewarding and challenging experience for forest owners. Information and preparation are key to achieving the best outcomes. Noel Kennedy explains how Teagasc’s Talking Timber event in Athlone on May 23rd can help forest owners to successfully sell […]
12 May 2023
Irish wood in housing
0 Irish wood in housing In today’s world, housing is becoming a significant issue in many countries, including Ireland. Solutions for house building can be found in all farm forests in Ireland. That is timber. Timber is a clean, renewable, and environmentally sound product. It’s been used for centuries for house building, Michael […]
5 May 2023
Forestry and Direct Payments – availing of positive interactions
Forestry and Direct Payments – availing of positive interactions Now is the time to focus on your Direct Payments, Tom Houlihan, Teagasc Forestry Specialist, tells us. With the new CAP 2023-2027 in place, the Direct Payments for 2023 includes a number of new schemes which replace previous schemes. For example, the new […]
28 April 2023
How can we decipher the effects of climate change in trees?
How can we decipher the effects of climate change in trees? Observing how trees express their reaction to different climate conditions is the starting point for researchers to answer this question. Here we are talking about phenological events in the establishment phase (such as bud bursting, flushing), but also mortality, and the […]
21 April 2023
Research update: Fighting a threat to alder
Research update: Fighting a threat to alder Emma Fuller and Dheeraj Rathore report on the Irish Research Council funded ExAl project. Common alder (Alnus glutinosa) is a native tree species with remarkable ecological importance, particularly within wetlands. Alder has the ability to promote diversity due to its soil nutrient enrichment qualities and […]
14 April 2023
Native honey bees in your forest
0 Native honey bees in your forest When we think of honey bees, we usually think of them as living in human-managed beehives and with honey production for humans as their purpose. Paul Butler, Forestry Liaison Officer, Teagasc Athenry, explains more in this article. For a number of years, it was considered that […]
7 April 2023
Morphological differences between Silver and Downy Birch
Morphological differences between Silver and Downy Birch Oliver Sheridan, Teagasc Forestry Research Officer, tells us more about Silver Birch (Betula pendula Roth) and Downy Birch (Betula pubescens Ehrh.) – two birch tree species that occur naturally throughout most of Europe. Silver Birch is one of the most important broadleaved species in Northern […]
31 March 2023
Transformation of Sitka spruce stands to continuous cover forestry- ContinuFOR
Transformation of Sitka spruce stands to continuous cover forestry- ContinuFOR Grace Jones & Ian Short, Forestry Development Department, tell us that in the 1920’s only 1% of Ireland’s land area had forests, yet now over 11% of Ireland is forested. About half of this forest is Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) plantations. Sitka […]
24 March 2023