Innovation in Agricultural Extension and Education – Looking forward
07 October 2020
Type Event Proceeding
Type Event Proceeding
08 - 09 October 2020
Programme
UCD Teagasc Knowledge Transfer Conference 2020 - Programme (PDF)
Session 1 - Opportunities & Challenges in agricultural education
- Rollout of online assessment across Teagasc education courses - Aoife Rooney (PDF) Poster (PDF)
- Towards equipping Teagasc teachers to use a problem based learning approach - John Maguire (PDF) Poster (PDF)
- Innovative teaching methods for the delivery of the Teagasc distance education programme - Mairead Quinn (PDF)
- Diversity and inclusion in agricultural education - Margaret Farrell (PDF) Poster (PDF)
- Role of agricultural media in knowledge transfer - Niall Kerins (PDF) Poster (PDF)
- Continuous professional development (CPD) for farmers - Roisin Horan (PDF)
- Level 6 Graduates in agriculture and their attitudes towards the conservation of hedgerows - Teresa McGowan (PDF)
Session 2 - Labour, human and animal welfare on farms
- Understanding use of labour on Irish dairy farms - Conor Hogan (PDF) Poster (PDF)
- Poster Dairy farmers’ management practices of bull calves - Damien Holland (PDF)
- A qualitative approach to developing guidelines for employment of drystock farmers on dairy farms - Eamonn O'Flaherty (PDF) Poster (PDF)
- Excess dairy calves – understanding and improving pathways - Meabh Dore (PDF) Poster (PDF)
- Supporting farmers in HR management - Niamh Brennan (PDF) Poster (PDF)
- Understanding the state of HR management on farms - Thomas Lawton (PDF) Poster (PDF)
Session 3 - Better communication on environmental sustainability
- Dairy farmers’ attitudes to reducing methane emissions through changes in the diets of dairy cows - Aoife Drennan (PDF)
- Environmental sustainability on dairy farms - how to better communicate messages at farm level - Aoife Leader (PDF) Poster (PDF)
- Identification of knowledge transfer techniques and policy changes to encourage greater uptake of GHG MACC measures - Donnacha Ryan (PDF) Poster (PDF)
- Capacity for commanage groups in the Wicklow Sustainable Uplands Agri-Environmental Scheme (SUAS) - Eoin Lynch (PDF) Poster (PDF)
- Nitrates derogation farmers using their nutrient management plans as a decision-making tool - Kevin Maher (PDF)
- Rathcroghan EIP - farming in archeological landscape - Luke Clogher (PDF) Poster (PDF)
- Barriers to adoption of mitigation measures on Irish dairy farms - Martin Ryan (PDF)
- Attitudes of dairy farmers to small scale forestry plantations - Neilus Nunan (PDF)
Session 4 - Fostering innovation in rural development
- Encouraging contract cropping arrangements between farmers - Lisa O'Toole (PDF) Poster (PDF)
- Facilitating rural communities to create enterprise opportunities using a participatory process - Aoife Forde (PDF) Poster (PDF)
- Factors influencing tillage students’ decision to diversify into horticultural food production - Eoin Sweetman (PDF) Poster (PDF)
- Young farmer attitudes and behaviour when it comes to exercise and health – a systematic review - Jennifer Keegan (PDF) Poster (PDF)
- Examining young farmers attachment to place - Roisin Murphy (PDF)
Session 5 - The message and the messenger – relationships of trust in agricultural extension
- Advisory and knowledge transfer tools and processes to support potato farmers and agronomists to assess their exposure to risk of cadmium - Blair Ruffing (PDF) Poster (PDF)
- Farmers’ perceptions of the Eurostar ram index post - STAP - James Murphy (PDF) Poster (PDF)
- Communities of practice to enhance continuous professional development - Meadhbh Johnston (PDF) Poster (PDF)
- What is influencing attitudes of dairy farmers to EBI in the Lakelands region? - Niall Duffy (PDF) Poster (PDF)
- Sales approaches to influence customers decision making in buying an agricultural product or service - Pamela McCormack (PDF)
Session 6 - Increasing digital technology in agricultural extension
- Using LYNC as a form of electronic communication in meeting the needs of farmers in discussion groups - Nicholas McKenna (PDF) Poster (PDF)
- Use of Facebook for knowledge exchange in commercial agricultural extension - Shane Gonoude (PDF)
- Farmers engagement with agri tech (Apps) - Stephen Hyde (PDF)