Sustainable Agriculture Webinars
The Signpost Series - ‘Pointing the way to a low emissions agriculture’
Sustainable Agriculture Training Webinar Series
A series of sustainable agriculture webinars aimed at the Irish agriculture industry will take place from April 2020 on an ongoing weekly basis.
Download and listen to The Signpost Series as a podcast below
Upcoming Webinars
October 2021
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Friday, 29 October 2021 |
Soil Fertility Trends in the Agricultural Catchments Programme |
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November 2021
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Friday, 5 November 2021 |
Assessing Biodiversity Management Practices on Intensively managed farmland • Questions and Answers |
Speaker Dr. Catherine Keena Teagasc Countryside Management Specialist |
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Friday, 12 November 2021 |
Farm Specific Mitigation Strategies and Practical Actions to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions on Irish Farms • Questions and Answers
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Speakers Dr. Seamus Kearney, Signpost Programme and Jonathan Herron Teagasc Moorepark |
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Friday, 19 November 2021 |
Managing the Risk of Phosphorus Loss from Slurry Application in Northern Ireland • Questions and Answers
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Speakers Drs Donnacha Doody and Russell Adam, AFBI |
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Friday, 26 November 2021 |
What are the implications of net zero for UK agriculture? • Questions and Answers
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Speaker Dr Bob Rees, SRUC Scotland |
Previous Webinars
October 2021
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Friday, 1 October 2021
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What's the Story with our Bogs? European Carbon Farming Initiative
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Friday, 8 October 2021 |
Implications of climate neutrality for agriculture, land use & forestry in Ireland |
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Friday, 15 October 2021 |
Farm Zero C Overview |
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Friday, 22 October 2021 |
Biorefinery Glas and the potential of the bioeconomy to transform grassland agriculture in Ireland
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September 2021
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Friday, 3 September 2021 |
Ireland's Nitrates review |
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Friday, 10 September 2021 |
Combining catchment science and agricultural advice to improve local water quality |
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Friday, 17 September 2021 |
The Pearl Mussel Project EIP: A results based payment scheme targeting an endangered species while delivering wider environmental benefits |
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Friday, 24 September 2021 |
Agroforestry – multiple benefits for Irish agriculture
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August 2021
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Friday, 6 August 2021 |
Managing Nutrient Runoff from Farmyards |
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Friday, 13 August 2021 |
Archaeology and Farming |
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Friday, 20 August 2021 |
Traditional Farm Buildings |
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Friday, 27 August 2021 |
Refining fertiliser recommendations for extensively managed grassland |
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July 2021
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Friday, 2 July 2021 |
High Nature Value Farmland in Ireland: marginal farming or central role in combating climate and biodiversity challenges? |
Speaker Dr James Moran, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) |
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Friday, 9 July 2021 |
Farmer Focus: "Protecting dung beetles while managing parasites, a positive feedback loop." |
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Friday, 16 July 2021 |
Update on ASSAP and Water Quality restoration |
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Friday, 23 July 2021 |
Recent policy developments for managing grazing livestock in New Zealand – some practical implications and future research needs to lessen farming’s impact on water quality |
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Friday, 30 July 2021 |
The Hen Harrier Project, A landscape level approach to Results Based Agri-Environment Payment Systems |
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June 2021
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Friday, 4 June 2021 |
Farmland Birds and the Birds of Conservation Concern in Ireland |
Speaker Dr. Anita Donaghy, Head of Species and Land Management, Birdwatch Ireland |
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Friday, 11 June 2021 |
A farmer's perspective on Biodiversity, Emissions and Water Quality |
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Friday, 18 June 2021 |
The All Ireland Pollinator Plan |
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Friday, 25 June 2021 |
Commercial dairy farming without fertilizer N |
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May 2021
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Friday, 7 May 2021 |
Agri-food Strategy 2030 - The Environmental Ambition |
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Friday, 14 May 2021 |
Water Quality: the challenge of understanding and valuing it! |
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Friday, 21 May 2021 |
Celebrating our biodiversity and motivating farmers to address the climate and biodiversity emergency |
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Friday, 28 May 2021 |
Renewable gas and the Mitchelstown Central Grid Injection facility |
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April 2021
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Thursday, 1 April 2021 |
Multispecies Swards - sward and animal performance under reduced nitrogen fertiliser inputs |
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Friday, 9 April 2021 |
Climate Mitigation Options through Afforestation |
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Friday, 16 April 2021 |
Context, Measurement and mitigation of methane emissions in Irish dairy systems |
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Friday, 23 April 2021 |
The BRIDE Project, Results-based Payments and how farmers can be rewarded for environmental improvement |
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Friday, 30 April 2021 |
Water quality – national problems, local solutions |
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March 2021
| Friday, 5 March 2021 |
Approach to Sustainability at Carbery
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Speaker Enda Buckley, Carbery Co-op |
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Friday, 12 March 2021 |
Low Impact Weed Control - Protecting Drinking Water Sources |
Speaker John Keogh, Animal & Plant Health Association (APHA) |
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Friday, 19 March 2021 |
Multi-species mixtures increase yields and resilience to drought, with lower nitrogen inputs |
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Friday, 26 March 2021 |
Working with farmers to improve water quality |
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February 2021
| Friday, 5 February 2021 |
Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions – New Zealand’s story
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Speaker Sinead Leahy, New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre (NZAGRC) |
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Friday, 12 February 2021 |
Protected Urea: A Research Update
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Speaker Patrick Forrestal, Teagasc |
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Friday, 19 February 2021 |
The Signpost Farm Programme: Teagasc campaign for climate action
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| Friday, 26 February 2021 |
The Impact of Climate Change on Smallholder Food Production in the Tropics |
Speaker Paul Wagstaff, Self Help Africa |
January 2021
| Friday, 8 January 2021 |
NFGWS Drinking Water Source Protection Pilot Project - Phase 2
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Speakers Patrick McCabe and Sean Corrigan, National Federation of Group Water Schemes |
| Friday, 15 January 2021 |
AgClimatise
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Speaker Dale Crammond, Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) |
| Friday, 22 January 2021 |
Organic Farming – Steps to on farm conversion and opportunities
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Speaker Elaine Leavy, Teagasc |
| Friday, 29 January 2021 |
Development of strategies to reduce methane emissions from agriculture |
Speaker Sinead Waters, Teagasc |
December 2020
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Friday, 4 December |
Growing Hedges for a sustainable future
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Speakers Catherine Keena, Teagasc Minister Pippa Hackett |
| Friday, 11 December |
Measuring and Mapping Hedges |
Speaker Stuart Green, Teagasc |
| Friday, 18 December |
Emerging Trends in EU Policy - CAP, Green Deal, Farm to Fork |
Speaker Alan Matthews, Trinity College Dublin |
November 2020
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Friday, 6 November |
The Economics of catchment management, linking science and farmer behaviour in the ACP |
Speaker Michele McCormack, Agricultural Catchments Programme, Teagasc |
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Friday, 13 November |
MCPA herbicide: new insights from catchment scale research in the North-West |
Speaker Philip Jordan, Ulster University |
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Friday, 20 November |
Creating & Shaping the development of Irelands Bioeconomy |
Speaker Patrick Barrett, Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine |
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Friday, 27 November |
Smart Food Solutions - One Health……. from Soil to Society - Using Good Science to Proactively improve Human & Environmental Health
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Speaker John Gilliland, Devenish |
| Friday, 3 April |
Greenhouse Gases - Why all the fuss?
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Speaker Philip O'Brien, EPA |
| Thursday, 9 April |
Reducing GHG Emissions in Irish Agriculture |
Speaker John Muldowney, Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) |
| Friday, 17 April |
Options to Reduce GHGs (The GHG MACCs) |
Speaker Gary Lanigan, Teagasc |
| Friday, 24 April |
Feeding Management for Productive Ruminants |
Speaker Joe Patton, Teagasc |
| Friday, 1 May |
Land Management – Drainage/Water Table Control
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| Friday, 8 May |
Maintaining the Derogation – The changes we need to see for a credible case
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Friday, 15 May |
Reducing Slurry Emissions
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Speakers David Wall, Mark Plunkett & Tim Hyde, Teagasc |
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Friday, 22 May |
Use of Protected Urea |
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Friday, 29 May |
Low Carbon Dairy Farming
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Friday, 5 June |
Water quality in Ireland - current status and Irelands 3rd River Basin Management Plan |
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Friday, 12 June |
Nitrogen – Interactions with soil and water |
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Friday, 19 June |
Phosphorus - Interactions with soil and water |
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Friday, 26 June |
Protecting Nitrogen and Phosphorus inputs on farms |
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Friday, 3 July |
Forestry
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Speaker: Tom Houlihan, Teagasc |
| Friday, 10 July | The Water Cycle - where does all the water go? Sediment impact on water quality • Identification of hydrological sensitive areas and mitigation actions
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Speakers: Owen Fenton and Daire OHuallachain, Teagasc |
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Friday, 17 July |
Water Quality- LAWPRO  |
Speaker: Ruth Hennessy, LAWPRO |
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Friday, 24 July |
Water Quality – ASSAP – Farming for Water Quality
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Speakers: Joe Crockett, Dairy Sustainability Ireland (DSI) and Noel Meehan ASSAP Manager, Teagasc |
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Friday, 31 July |
Met Eireann • Ireland’s Changing Climate • Questions and Answers
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Speaker: Keith Lambkin, Senior Climatologist, Met Éireann |
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Friday, 7 August |
Climate Adoption Policy
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Speakers: Maria Talbot, Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine (DAFM) and Michael O Donovan, Teagasc |
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Friday, 14 August |
Carbon Sequestration in Grassland
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Speaker Donal O Brien, Teagasc |
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Friday, 21 August |
Woodlands for Water
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Speaker Kevin Collins, Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) |
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Friday, 28 August |
Energy
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Speakers John Upton and Barry Caslin, Teagasc |
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Friday, 4 September |
Biodiversity
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Speaker Catherine Keena, Teagasc |
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Friday, 11 September |
Biodiversity
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Speaker Lorna Cole, SRUC, Scotland |
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Friday, 18 September |
Biodiversity
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Speakers John Finn and Daire OHuallachain, Teagasc |
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Friday, 25 September |
Biodiversity
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Speaker Jane Stout, Trinity College Dublin |
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Friday, 2 October |
Semi-natural grasslands in Ireland - precious resources under threat
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Speaker Maria Long, Grassland Ecologist, National Parks and Wildlife Service |
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Friday, 9 October |
What impacts the quality of water in Agricultural Catchments Programme [ACP]?
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Speaker Per-Erik Mellander, Chief Scientist, Agricultural Catchments Programme, Teagasc |
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Friday, 16 October |
11 years of Hi-resolution water monitoring.
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Speaker David Ryan, Technologist, Agricultural Catchments Programme, Teagasc |
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Friday, 23 October |
The Agricultural Catchments Programme assessment of the Nitrates Derogation
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Speaker Edward Burgess, Agricultural Catchments Programme, Teagasc |
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Friday, 30 October |
Animal breeding as a cumulative and permanent strategy to environmental stewardship
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Speaker Donagh Berry, Centre Director, VistaMilk, Teagasc |