Rural Life
Food traceability research project announced by Cork-US collaboration
Meat traceability, ensuring watertight safety in the food chain and preventing food safety scandals are the focus of a four-year PhD...
Rural Life
Meat traceability, ensuring watertight safety in the food chain and preventing food safety scandals are the focus of a four-year PhD...
Grass
The Grassland Farmer of the Year competition for 2018 was officially launched yesterday, Friday, June 15, by the Minister for...
Agri-Business
It has been announced that 20 “new experienced researchers” will benefit from a €5.2 million investment over the next five...
Tillage
Teagasc has appointed John Spink as the head of its Crops, Environment and Land Use Programme for a five-year term....
Rural Life
Clare senior hurler Shane O’Donnell has been awarded the Teagasc-Fulbright Award, which will see him travel to the US to study...
Dairy
Between now and 2030 worldwide demand growth for milk and milk products will be three times the level of current...
Environment
Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions from Irish agriculture are projected to increase by 9% relative to levels recorded in 2005 by...
Pig/Poultry
Increases in feed costs witnessed this year – alongside static pig prices – have meant that Irish pig producers are...
Rural Life
A suite of new apprenticeships are set to be rolled out by Teagasc, as the main provider of further education...
Rural Life
Prof. Thia Hennessy, dean of Cork University Business School (CUBS) at UCC, has been appointed to the Teagasc Authority by...
Rural Life
The need for education and training across the land sector will intensify over the coming years and decades, delegates at...
Beef
Currently, the amount of suckler farms in Ireland using AI is low; somewhere in the region of 23% of progeny...
Tillage
It could be argued that Irish farmers are striving to achieve production cost reductions with one arm tied behind their...
Grass
A “long-term reduction” in the use of fertiliser is reportedly evident on some Irish farms, according to the Teagasc Fertiliser Use...
Grass
Farmers have been encouraged to plan for a second cut of silage in 2018 by Teagasc dairy specialist Dr. Joe...
Tillage
Farmers across the country have been forced to adjust cropping plans this year due to the poor weather in the...
Dairy
Northern and western dairy farmers lost out on 30 grazing days in 2017 compared to their counterparts in the south....
Rural Life
The need for off-farm income is just “a fact of life” for most drystock farmers, the director of Teagasc, Prof....