Teagasc/UCD - Knowledge Transfer Conference - Botanic Gardens
10 October 2017
Type Event Proceeding
Type Event Proceeding
Presentations from the conference
Presentations
Session 1: The effective farm advisor
- Peter Grogran - Building effective advisor client relationships (PDF)
- Angela Ryan - Self Efficacy of Ag Advisors (PDF)
- Donal Kelly - Outsourcing and refocusing on core KT work (PDF)
- Aisling Molloy - Engaging women with advisory services (PDF)
Session 2: Digital and visual opportunities for improving KT
- Claire Bambrick - KT Conference presentation (PDF)
- John Moriarty - Visual and Digital Tools for KT in the pig industry (PDF)
Session 3: Groups as spaces and places for farmer innovation?
- Hayden Lalor - The Burren Life Project (PDF)
- Martin Mulkerrins - Groups as spaces and places for farmer innovation (PDF)
- Brian Duggan - IPM the challenge for KT (PDF)
- Conor Holohan - Groups as spaces and places for farmer innovation (PDF)
Session 4: Enhancing agricultural education
- Sinead Flannery - Improving agricultural education (PDF)
- Kevin Cunningham - KT Conference (PDF)
- Grainne McGrath - Enhancing access and participation (PDF)
- Yvonne Grace - Training needs assessment for horticulture sector (PDF)
Session 5: Performance and profitability – what and how to measure
- Ciara O'Donovan - Developing and testing proxy indicators of farm profitability and efficiency measurements for knowledge transfer use on Irish farms (PDF)
- Fergus O'Rourke - Strategic Use of Benchmarking tools (PDF)
- Aileen McCarron - A Study of How Advisors Use Decision Support Tools to Aid Farmer Decision Making (PDF)
Session 6: Challenges and Opportunities to improve KT in the dairy sector
- Ciara Hickey - A study of the factors which influence business satisfaction amongst dairy farm households (PDF)
- Niamh Garvey - Assessing extension methods to promote uptake of computer aided grass management in dairy discussion groups (PDF)
- Padraig Fogarty - An examination of why dairy farmers who measured grass during their role as monitor farmers discontinued the use of this technology (PDF)
- Michael Malone - An investigation into the attitudes of dairy farmers in the Lakeland Dairies region towards the age at first calving of replacement dairy heifers (PDF)
- Wesley Fennell - An examination of categories of dairy farmers in Co. Mayo based on their adoption of certain farming technologies (PDF)
- Redmond McEvoy - The role and value of Teagasc-Industry Joint Programmes for KT (PDF)
- Alastair Pollock - A Knowledge Transfer Approach to Collaborative Farming Structures for the Dairy Industry (PDF)
- Ellen Standish - Farmers Attitudes Towards Management of Workload on Their Farms (PDF)