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How do Spanish beef farms compare to Ireland?
0 How do Spanish beef farms compare to Ireland? In early November 14 Dairy Beef 500 farmers went on a study trip to visit a number of farms in the Catalonia region of Spain, in the north east of Spain. On the trip they visited a number of farms, with the two main […]
3 December 2022
What is your next Project?
0 What is your next Project? Bernie Leahy, B&T Drystock Adviser, Teagasc Galway/Clare, tells us that everybody should have a project. One of my farmers, sadly deceased, recommended that everybody should have a Project! This statement is shining “true” as I have found whilst making my “ACRES Pilgrimage “through the hills, vales and […]
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
Grass10 Clover Report
0 Grass10 Clover Report Dr Deirdre Hennessy and Hannah Irish give an update on Moorepark Grass-Clover Research covering closing management this autumn and performance for year to date across the different trials. Philip Creighton gives an update from the Sheep Research Demonstration Farm at Athenry Teagasc Moorepark Grass-Clover Research Update The grass-white clover research […]
2 December 2022
Why should we study microbiomes in forestry?
0 Why should we study microbiomes in forestry? Trees act as the lungs of the earth, playing a significant role by contributing to our environment. Terrestrial plants including forest trees are generally known to live in close association with microbial organisms. Researcher Dheeraj Rathore & PhD student Emma Fuller study microbiomes in forestry […]
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
Weed control
0 Weed control The forecast for many areas over the coming week is for a period of dry weather, which may facilitate some of the delayed jobs that have had to be postponed due to the very wet period that we have had. Weed control on various crops e.g. winter barley, wheat and […]
1 December 2022
How do Spanish beef farms compare to Irish beef farms?
How do Spanish beef farms compare to Irish beef farms? DairyBeef 500 advisor, Sean Cummins, is on this week’s Beef Edge podcast with interesting insights into the recent DairyBeef 500 farmer study trip to Spain. Over the course of the trip they visited a number of farms in the Catalonia region in […]
30 November 2022