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Be a Farm Safety Hero
Be a Farm Safety Hero Acknowledging a Farm Safety Hero is the Friday theme of Farm Safety Week 2023. John McNamara, Teagasc Senior Health and Safety Specialist tells us more Teagasc wishes to particularly pay tribute to Farmers who have given an account of their injury or ill health so that others […]
21 July 2023
Farm Safety Week Focus: Long Term Health
Farm Safety Week Focus: Long Term Health The Farm Safety week focus for Thursday is long term health. Managing your own personal health and safety must be central to good management on the farm. Manual Handling About a third of all reported injuries are due to poor manual handling. Most manual handling […]
20 July 2023
Low Stress Movement of Animals with Miriam Parker
Low Stress Movement of Animals with Miriam Parker In this video Miriam Parker, Livestockwise, discusses the instinctive six strategies for cattle survival and how they can be used to encourage cattle to do what we want in a handling scenario. These are instinctive things that all cattle do and by learning how […]
19 July 2023
Farm Safety week – Livestock handling
Farm Safety week – Livestock handling The Farm Safety week focus for Wednesday is livestock handling. With cattle out grazing it is an important time to think about how interactions with your cattle can be planned and managed carefully to avoid risk. Francis Bligh tells us how we can stay safe while […]
19 July 2023
Jessy’s Farm Safety Art Competition Winners
Jessy’s Farm Safety Art Competition Winners Jessy the Sheep Dog, our Teagasc Farm Safety mascot, loves to help keep everyone safe on the farm. As part of farm safety week, Jessy and her friends ran an art competition and asked you to show her how you stay safe with livestock on the […]
19 July 2023
Farm Safety Week Focus: ATV Safety
Farm Safety Week Focus: ATV Safety Using an All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) can very easily and suddenly cause a very serious or fatal injury. ATV crashes can kill on impact. When an ATV turns over it can crush the chest area with its weight or cause an impact injury. Francis Bligh outlines […]
18 July 2023
Teagasc Supports Farm Safety Week 2023
Teagasc Supports Farm Safety Week 2023 Teagasc Director Professor Frank O’Mara stated that “Teagasc strongly supports Farm Safety Week 2023” and called on farmers to use the Week to invigorate management of health and safety on their farms. Professor O’Mara stated that Teagasc will be publishing material related to daily themes to […]
17 July 2023
5,000 learners to benefit from cattle handling simulators annually
5,000 learners to benefit from cattle handling simulators annually The provision of funding to Teagasc for the procurement of calving and injecting simulators for use in agricultural colleges and research centres has been announced. When making the announcement, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine with responsibility […]
17 July 2023
Equines on an organic farm
Equines on an organic farm Robert and Maura McCabe, who farm 45ha in Corbally, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, joined the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine’s Organic Farming Scheme in January 2023. They farm suckler cows and horses, keeping all bovine weanlings for one winter and selling them at 18 months off […]
16 July 2023
New Knowledge Transfer Programme open
New Knowledge Transfer Programme open Details of a new three year Knowledge Transfer (KT) Programme, which will be delivered by a network of approved KT facilitators, was today, July 14th, announced by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The new programme, which offers reimbursement rates of €750/participant/year, requires participants to […]
14 July 2023