Teagasc Research Insights Webinars

Welcome to the Teagasc Research Insights webinar series.

A series of webinars focused on addressing the challenges and opportunities in the agri-food sector and showcasing the latest thinking and Teagasc’s research in these areas.

Our one-hour webinars with Teagasc Researchers are aimed at anyone interested in our research, including professionals in the agriculture and food industry, other researchers, media, farmers, policy makers, EU and other international researchers and professionals.

View past webinars here

Webinar 24 - Increasing energy use efficiency on Irish farms

Wednesday, 4th August at 9.30am

The panellists on this webinar focused on the technologies that increase energy use efficiency on Irish farms.

Presenter:

Pat Dillon - Head of Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Programme

Presentations:

Increasing energy efficiency on dairy farms (PDF)
John Upton - Research Officer
Increasing energy efficiency on pig farms (PDF)
Ger McCutcheon Pig Development Officer
Increasing Renewable Energy Use on Irish Farms (PDF)
Barry Caslin Energy & Rural Development Specialist

Webinar 22 - Reducing methane emissions from ruminants

Wednesday, 14th July at 9.30am

The panellists on this webinar focused on research currently being undertaken in Teagasc to reduce enteric methane emissions from ruminant livestock.

Presenter:

David Kenny - Head of Animal & Bioscience Department

Panellists:

Sinead Waters - Development of novel technologies to reduce methane emission from Irish pasture based production systems
Ben Lahart - Methane emissions in grazing dairy systems
Donagh Berry - Development of breeding strategies to reduce methane emissions

For questions and answers of the following webinar, click here - Questions and Answers - Webinar 22

Presentations

Reducing Methane Emissions(PDF) - Sinead Waters
Methane emissions in grazing dairy systems(PDF) - Ben Lahart
Breeding strategies to reducing methane emissions from ruminants(PDF) - Donagh Berry

Webinar 23 - Increasing nitrogen use efficiency in pasture based systems

Wednesday, 28th July at 9.30am

The panellists on this webinar discussed strategies to increase Nitrogen use efficiency while at the same time maintain pasture production.

Presenter:

Pat Dillon - Head of Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Programme

Panellists:

Laurence Shalloo - Economics of chemical nitrogen application rate
Elodie Ruelle - Modelling nitrogen use efficiency
Brendan Horan - Increasing nitrogen use efficiency- Curtins research farm experience