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Moorepark Milk Quality Conference 2013
Moorepark Milk Quality Conference 2013

A critical prerequisite for the manufacture of quality dairy products is to start with milk of the highest quality. Abolition of EU milk quotas in 2015 is projected to result in a 2.75 billion litre increase in Irish milk production by 2020. This increase has the potential to put ressure on the current quality standards, while the milk quality criteria requested by milk processors and by customers generally are becoming more strict and rigorous. It is important that requests to milk producers for improved quality milk is accompanied by the necessary information required to produce such improved quality milk.

04 December 2013
Type
Event Proceeding
Carbon-Neutrality as a horizon point for Irish Agriculture
Carbon-Neutrality as a horizon point for Irish Agriculture

This study was conducted in the context of the discussions on the development of a new national climate change policy and the publication of the Heads of a Climate Action and Low-Carbon Development Bill on 26 February 2013 by the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Minister Phil Hogan, T.D. Specifically, it aims to address and provide a scientific framework for the formidable but constructive challenge posed to the agricultural industry in the final climate policy analysis report from the NESC Secretariat: "Ireland and the Climate Change Challenge - Connecting ‘How Much’ with ‘How To’". The latter report proposes to work towards carbon-neutral agriculture as a ‘horizon point’ for 2050, in which agricultural emissions are fully offset by carbon-sequestration.

02 December 2013
Type
Submission