Forestry
Forestry Health and Safety
Forestry Health and Safety It is the responsibility of every forest owner to make their forest a safe and healthy place to work. Steven Meyen, Teagasc Forestry Development Officer has key advice on Health and Safety in the forestry sector. Learn about your role as a Landowner, Forestry Works Manager, Contractor or […]
25 March 2022
Forest Establishment Walks 2022
Forest Establishment Walks 2022 Teagasc in association with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) have organised thirteen “Forest Establishment Walks 2022″ nationwide from 21 March to 1 April focusing on forest establishment and the management of young forests. Each walk will commence at 2pm. Photo above: A two-year old […]
18 March 2022
Palace NeighbourWood Park – connecting a community with their environment
Palace NeighbourWood Park – connecting a community with their environment A new NeighbourWood in Roscommon exemplifies a local community’s determination to reconnect with nature. Noel Kennedy, Forestry Development Officer describes the genesis of the project and how it is working out. Elphin is an old cathedral town in north Roscommon. Like so […]
11 March 2022
Spring frost damage to young trees and how to get grant aid
0 Spring frost damage to young trees and how to get grant aid Steven Meyen, Teagasc Forestry Development Officer, based in Donegal, remembers the severe late spring frosts of May 2019, 2020 and 2021. He discusses frost damage to young trees, steps forest owners can take including availing of the Reconstitution of Woodland […]
4 March 2022
Practical considerations for first thinning of Sitka spruce
Practical considerations for first thinning of Sitka spruce Owing to environmental effects, seed source or poor management trees in a stand are rarely of superior quality. For those considering thinning and removing some of the uncertainty surrounding the operation, Niall Farrelly, Teagasc Research Officer, provides some practical considerations. The large number of […]
18 February 2022
Trees: From Seed to Sawdust
Trees: From Seed to Sawdust “Trees: From Seed to Sawdust” is a series of 20 radio documentaries broadcast on KCLR 96FM, every Monday at 5.30 pm until the 7th March 2022. Each week the series covers a topic based on trees and their role and uses in the Irish landscape. Michael Somers, […]
11 February 2022
The many benefits of our forests
The many benefits of our forests Ciara, Teagasc’s virtual forestry adviser highlights in this video some of the many and wide-ranging economic, environmental and social benefits our forests provide for us every day of our lives. Let’s consider the economic advantages… When new broadleaf, conifer and mixed forests are planted, government grants […]
28 January 2022
Investigating agroforestry uptake on Irish farms
Investigating agroforestry uptake on Irish farms Forestry cover is substantially lower than the European average in Ireland with current afforestation rates remaining low. Rachel Irwin, Teagasc Walsh Scholar investigates Increasing tree cover on Irish dairy and drystock farms: the main barriers and perceptions that impede agroforestry uptake. Agroforestry benefits fail to entice […]
21 January 2022
Can we assume all fires are bad? Not necessarily so..
Can we assume all fires are bad? Not necessarily so.. Fire has been used for centuries to effect desired changes in vegetation conditions; enabling rapid removal of unwanted, dead or less productive vegetation from land, and creating favourable conditions for new growth. John Casey & Catríona Foley, Teagasc discuss prescribed or controlled […]
14 January 2022
Firewood production
0 Firewood production Jonathan Sykes runs tourist accommodation with his wife Betty in Springfield, Co Limerick. They planted twenty hectares of broadleaf woodlands twenty years ago. Steven Meyen, Teagasc Forestry Development Officer looks at firewood income potential and the business of firewood at Liston Fuel Logs The Sykes wanted to create different income […]
7 January 2022