White Clover
White Clover will increase grass production and quality. It improves animal performance - 13% increase in animal carcass weight & 25% increase in lamb live weight gain. It saves €50/acre on Nitrogen fertiliser (save 110 units N/acre, CAN @ €250/t ) and gives a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions
- Date
- 08 July 2020
- Type
- Media Article
Farming Influence on Water Quality- Findings of the Agricultural Catchments Programme (ACP)
A better environment and supporting the production of high-quality food are the twin aims of the ACP. Funded by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, staff have been working with 300 farmers across six catchments in Ireland for over ten years to achieve these goals while also evaluating the Nitrates Directive regulations.
- Date
- 08 July 2020
- Type
- Media Article
Methane Production: How can we reduce it?
Methane (CH4) is the second most important greenhouse gas (GHG) in terms of global warming. It is 28 times more potent to the environment than carbon dioxide (CO2). Agriculture accounts for 34% of Irish GHGs emissions, with CH4 responsible for nearly 60% of agri emissions.
- Date
- 08 July 2020
- Type
- Media Article
Protected Urea – Cost Efficient N
Protected urea (ProUrea) is urea which is treated with a urease inhibitor. The urease inhibitor can be either a) coated onto the outside of the fertiliser granule or b) incorporated into the urea granule melt during manufacture.
- Date
- 08 July 2020
- Type
- Media Article
A Guide to Vegetable Growing – 9th Edition
The 9th edition of A Guide to Vegetable growing.
- Date
- 07 July 2020
- Type
- Book
Understanding the Dairy Beef Index (DBI)
The Dairy Beef Index (DBI) is a tool to produce quality beef cattle from the dairy herd that have both desirable calving attributes for the dairy herd (i.e. easy calving and short gestation) and valuable carcass merit attributes for the finisher.
- Date
- 07 July 2020
- Type
- Media Article
TResearch Summer 2020
RLS: another disease for barley to contend with
- Date
- 07 July 2020
- Type
- Magazine
Let’s Talk Poultry Webinar – From chicks to eggs – improving the layer cycle
The third webinar in the "Let's Talk Poultry" series for Irish poultry producers in collaboration with Alltech which took place on Wednesday, 1 July.
- Date
- 07 July 2020
- Type
- Event Proceeding
Management and prevention of common infectious & parasitic diseases affecting dairy beef calves
Dairy beef calves can be susceptible to a number of infectious & parasitic diseases. Niamh Field has advice and information on the prevention and management of coccidiosis, gutworm, lungworm and viral pneumonia
- Date
- 07 July 2020
- Type
- Media Article
The Signpost Series – Forestry webinar
The Signpost Series - ‘Pointing the way to a low emissions agriculture’
- Date
- 07 July 2020
- Type
- Event Proceeding