Agri-Business
New €50k agri scholarship launched at UCD
University College Dublin (UCD) and FDC Group have announced details of a new annual scholarship programme available to students enrolled...
Agri-Business
University College Dublin (UCD) and FDC Group have announced details of a new annual scholarship programme available to students enrolled...
Rural Life
The University College Dublin (UCD) Agricultural Science Society (AgSoc) has donated a significant sum of money to two charities at...
Agri-Business
Farm management solutions business Herdwatch has partnered with University College Dublin (UCD) to launch a new ‘accelerator programme’ that will...
Rural Life
The first-ever chair of animal welfare and veterinary ethics at University College Dublin’s (UCD) School of Veterinary Medicine was appointed...
Rural Life
An opportunity has become available for those working the agricultural sector to study a part-time masters degree – at a...
Grass
Multi-species swards – comprising mixes of grasses, legumes and herbs – are consistently out-performing perennial ryegrass (PRG) monocultures (receiving more...
Rural Life
The views of farmers are being sought in a vet student survey on the issue of cattle that receive acute...
Beef
A multidisciplinary team of researchers has shed new light on how the bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB) in humans and...
Agri Politics
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has announced grant awards of €473,289 for research into healthy diets....
Forestry
Forestry students of University College Dublin (UCD) are hosting a free online seminar on agroforestry next Wednesday (March 10). Taking...
Opinion
Every now and then all the planets in the solar system align to provide an industry with the opportunity to...
Tillage
Researchers in Ireland and Wales have been awarded €2.7 million to explore the development of oat varieties that are climate-resistant...
Dairy
Economic modelling has confirmed that farmers operating a highly stocked, low concentrate milking system would be highly impacted by a...
Dairy
Economic Breeding Index (EBI) can be used as an effective herd management tool across all dairy production scenarios, according to...
Breaking News
Two of the three finalists for this year’s Geographical Society of Ireland (GSI) Doctoral Awards have been involved in research...
Tillage
A survey was released today which aims to assess the use of technology in arable agriculture in Ireland. The survey...
Tillage
UCD has added a new entry to its agricultural science offering in 2021. Crop Science has been added to the...
Environment
Planting more hedges, plants and trees will reduce human exposure to harmful airborne pollution by 50%, according to a ground-breaking...