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 Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM), 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 DAFM. Other important national sources are Science Foundation Ireland, Enterprise Ireland, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Irish Research Council, and in recent years our researchers have been very active in winning funding from 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 2018. Please click on the links for more information:
Fertiliser Use Survey 2005-2015
Salad potato production in Ireland
Quantification of lipid oxidation in dairy powders
Financial impact of risk management tools
First Irish red clover variety
National spotted wing Drosophila monitoring
Future levels of Irish agricultural greenhouse gas
Improving soil fertility on heavy soils farms
Identifying pest risks to Sitka spruce
Can a cheese snack make you feel fuller for longer
Institutional drivers of land mobility
IPM strategies for septoria tritici blotch
transparent, edible and insoluble haemoglobin