TResearch Autumn 2024
Water-course correction
Water-course correction
Contract rearing in Waterford: multiple benefits for all involved
This Open Day at Solohead coincides with a large reduction in milk price this spring. There is an urgent requirement for dairy farmers to reduce the cost of milk production. Research at the Solohead Research farm has shown that fertilizer costs can be substantially reduced by replacing chemical fertilizer with white clover and the efficient recycling of slurry. Well managed cloverbased swards can supply 140 kg/ha of N each year at little cost, which is a large proportion of the N requirement on an average Irish dairy farm. Another benefit is that white clover herbage is of high quality and maintains high quality pasture under low nitrogen input systems. Other topics covered at the Open Day will include grazing management, dairy cow health and fertility and use of high EBI genetics.
Proteome analysis to improve meat tenderness
Characterisation and enrichment of “buttermilk” fat globule membrane (MFGM) composition using novel technologies
Engineering of high quality gluten-free breads
On behalf of the conference organising committee, I am delighted to present the proceedings of an international conference on beef safety “Advancing Beef Safety through Research and Innovation” which was held at Ashtown Food Research Conference Centre, Teagasc, Dublin, Ireland on 25th to 26th March 2009. The proceedings contains extended abstracts from 14 invited speakers, 14 abstracts from selected short oral presentations and 42 abstracts from poster presentations.
This is the fourth Teagasc Statement of Strategy, setting out how the organisation will deploy its resources over the next three years to meet its organisational goals. Following on from Teagasc 2030 (Foresight exercise) it signals the first of the directional changes required to improve the support of agriculture and the food industry over the coming years.
National Pesticide and Sprayer Event 2009 Proceedings
Healthy fatty acid-enriched fresh beef: implications for shelf-life and flavour - 5409
High performance in a deer unit depends on the efficient conversion of grass into meat in the growing/finishing of animals.