National Dairy Conference
28 November 2018 28 November 2018
Event Time 9.00
Venue Hodson Bay Hotel, Athlone & Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork
The 2018 National Dairy Conference takes place on November 27th in Cork and November 28th in Athlone. The theme of this years Conference is 'Making Dairy Farming More Sustainable'
Venue Hodson Bay Hotel, Athlone & Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork
The 2018 Dairy Conference takes place as follows:
Wednesday, 28 November
Hodson Bay Hotel, Athlone
| AGENDA | |
| 9:00 | Registration |
| 9:45 | Welcome Billy Kelleher, Regional Manager Teagasc (Cork Conference) Tom Kellegher, Regional Manager Teagasc (Athlone Conference) |
| SESSION 1: Chaired by: Liam Herlihy, Chairman Teagasc Authority (Cork) Gerry Boyle, Director Teagasc (Athlone) |
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| 10.00 | Opportunities for Irish grass fed milk products Albert McQuaid, Global Chief Technology Officer, Kerry Group (Cork) Speaker TBC (Athlone) |
| 10:30 | Dealing with weather risks; lessons from 2018 Tom O'Dwyer & Joe Patton, Teagasc |
| 10.55 | New insights to the feeding value of grazed pasture Michael Dineen, Teagasc |
| SESSION 2: Chaired by: Kevin Twomey, dairy farmer & Chairperson of Teagasc Dairy Stakeholder Group (Cork) James Keane, Regional Manager, Teagasc (Athlone) |
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| 11:20 | Managing all calves to a high welfare standard: the Australian experience Natalie Roadknight, University of Melbourne |
| The new Dairy Beef Index Andrew Cromie, ICBF What role can sexed semen play? Stephen Butler, Teagasc |
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| 12:30 | Lunch |
| SESSION 3: Choose three workshops to attend from the list of six below | |
| 13:45 - 16.30 | Workshop 1 Managing our GHG and ammonia emmisions targets Workshop 2 Grassland decisions made easy Workshop 3 Coping with the spring workload Workshop 4 Contract heifer rearing Workshop 5 Building fodder reserves in 2019 Workshop 6 Making our dairy farms better places to work |