Research Impact Highlights
The annual expenditure on research in Teagasc is approximately €65 million, which comes from a variety of sources. These include the core grant-in-aid funding allocated by the Government and competitive funding awarded nationally; principally, the Food Institutional Research Measure (FIRM), the Research Stimulus Fund and Competitive Forestry Research for Development (CoFoRD) programmes of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM). Important sources are Science Foundation Ireland, Enterprise Ireland, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Irish Research Council and international programmes such as EU Horizon 2020. Farmer levy contributions, industry-funded research, and earnings from services offered and farming activities also provide funding. Listed below are a selection of highlights from new impacts achieved in 2017. Please click on the links for more information
Animals
Effect of housing conditions on performance and welfare of finishing beef cattle
Predicting the human capital requirements of Irish dairying
Accurate genetic evaluations for profitability in sheep
Making dairy farms more energy efficient
Reducing antibiotic usage on pig farms in Ireland
Food
Lactobacilli as live bio-therapeutics for the treatment of Clostridium difficile infection
New sensory panels for characterising flavour and texture profiles of food
Milkybiotics – new bioactivity for bovine colostrum
Mining the metabolic diversity of microbes for flavour diversification in dairy products
Specialised meat products target promotion of healthy ageing
Rural Economy
Decision-support packages for knowledge transfer
The productivity of Irish agriculture
Teagasc National Farm Survey: the sustainability of small farming in Ireland
Environment
Submission for third review of the Nitrates Directive National Action Programme
Nutrient Efficiency Working Group – lime campaign 2013-2017
Crops
Grass weed control in Irish arable crops
Assessing the impact of a GM potato engineered for late blight resistance