Innovation in Agricultural Extension and Education – Looking forward

08 – 09 October 2020

Programme

UCD Teagasc Knowledge Transfer Conference 2020 – Programme (PDF)

Session 1 – Opportunities & Challenges in agricultural education 

• Rollout of online assessment across Teagasc education courses – Aoife Rooney (PDF) Poster  (PDF)
• Towards equipping Teagasc teachers to use a problem based learning approach – John Maguire (PDF) Poster  (PDF) 
• Innovative teaching methods for the delivery of the Teagasc distance education programme – Mairead Quinn (PDF) 
• Diversity and inclusion in agricultural education – Margaret Farrell (PDF) Poster  (PDF) 
• Role of agricultural media in knowledge transfer – Niall Kerins (PDF) Poster  (PDF) 
• Continuous professional development (CPD) for farmers – Roisin Horan (PDF) 
• Level 6 Graduates in agriculture and their attitudes towards the conservation of hedgerows – Teresa McGowan (PDF)

Session 2 – Labour, human and animal welfare on farms

• Understanding use of labour on Irish dairy farms – Conor Hogan (PDF) Poster  (PDF) 
• Poster Dairy farmers’ management practices of bull calves – Damien Holland (PDF)
• A qualitative approach to developing guidelines for employment of drystock farmers on dairy farms – Eamonn O’Flaherty (PDF) Poster  (PDF) 
• Excess dairy calves – understanding and improving pathways – Meabh Dore (PDF) Poster  (PDF)
• Supporting farmers in HR management – Niamh Brennan (PDF) Poster  (PDF) 
• Understanding the state of HR management on farms – Thomas Lawton (PDF) Poster  (PDF) 

Session 3 – Better communication on environmental sustainability

• Dairy farmers’ attitudes to reducing methane emissions through changes in the diets of dairy cows – Aoife Drennan (PDF)
• Environmental sustainability on dairy farms – how to better communicate messages at farm level – Aoife Leader (PDF) Poster  (PDF) 
• Identification of knowledge transfer techniques and policy changes to encourage greater uptake of GHG MACC measures – Donnacha Ryan (PDF) Poster  (PDF) 
• Capacity for commanage groups in the Wicklow Sustainable Uplands Agri-Environmental Scheme (SUAS) – Eoin Lynch (PDF) Poster  (PDF) 
• Nitrates derogation farmers using their nutrient management plans as a decision-making tool – Kevin Maher (PDF)
• Rathcroghan EIP – farming in archeological landscape – Luke Clogher (PDF) Poster  (PDF) 
• Barriers to adoption of mitigation measures on Irish dairy farms – Martin Ryan (PDF)
• Attitudes of dairy farmers to small scale forestry plantations – Neilus Nunan (PDF) 

Session 4 – Fostering innovation in rural development

• Encouraging contract cropping arrangements between farmers – Lisa O’Toole (PDF) Poster  (PDF)
• Facilitating rural communities to create enterprise opportunities using a participatory process – Aoife Forde (PDF) Poster  (PDF) 
• Factors influencing tillage students’ decision to diversify into horticultural food production – Eoin Sweetman (PDF) Poster  (PDF) 
• Young farmer attitudes and behaviour when it comes to exercise and health – a systematic review – Jennifer Keegan (PDF) Poster  (PDF) 
• Examining young farmers attachment to place – Roisin Murphy (PDF) 

Session 5 – The message and the messenger – relationships of trust in agricultural extension

• Advisory and knowledge transfer tools and processes to support potato farmers and agronomists to assess their exposure to risk of cadmium – Blair Ruffing (PDF) Poster  (PDF) 
• Farmers’ perceptions of the Eurostar ram index post – STAP – James Murphy (PDF) Poster  (PDF) 
• Communities of practice to enhance continuous professional development – Meadhbh Johnston (PDF) Poster  (PDF) 
• What is influencing attitudes of dairy farmers to EBI in the Lakelands region? – Niall Duffy (PDF) Poster  (PDF) 
• Sales approaches to influence customers decision making in buying an agricultural product or service – Pamela McCormack (PDF) 

Session 6 – Increasing digital technology in agricultural extension

• Using LYNC as a form of electronic communication in meeting the needs of farmers in discussion groups – Nicholas McKenna (PDF) Poster  (PDF)
• Use of Facebook for knowledge exchange in commercial agricultural extension – Shane Gonoude (PDF)
• Farmers engagement with agri tech (Apps) – Stephen Hyde (PDF)