TResearch Spring 2025
Powder to the People
Powder to the People
Fertiliser Focus
Is cúis áthais dom é seo, an tríú Ráiteas Straitéise de chuid Teagasc, a thugann cur síos ar ár gcuid spriocanna, ar ár gcuid straitéisí agus ar ár gcuid gníomhartha don tréimhse 2005-2007, a chur os bhur gcomhair.
Government policy for rural areas aims to build a rural economy where enterprises will be commercially competitive without damaging the environment. It seeks to have vibrant sustainable communities, with a quality of life that will make them attractive places in which to work and live. It aspires for equity of opportunity between rural and urban areas, and for balanced development between the regions. These initiatives are underpinned by EU policy for rural areas, which subscribes to the attainment of ‘living country sides’ within the context of balanced regional development across the Union.
Beef and Sheep Production Research
Over the years much research effort has been devoted to the development of beef production systems at Grange Beef Research Centre. Based on earlier work by Dr. Joe Harte and his colleagues, an integrated 2-year-old dairy calf-to-beef system was established by Dr. Vincent Flynn at Ballinalack (then a field station of Grange) in the late 1970s. It comprised of Friesian steers slaughtered at about 290 kg carcass weight.
Under the Clean Livestock Policy, producers must take all reasonable practical steps to ensure that their stock are acceptably clean at slaughter. The vast majority of the 1.6 million plus Irish cattle presented for slaughter each year meet the Clean Livestock Policy standards. However, problems with cattle cleanliness can arise on individual farms. Very dirty cattle are rejected for slaughter.
Situation and Outlook in Irish Agriculture 2004 / 05
National Dairy Conferences 2004 Exploiting the New Era
2004 National REPS Conference Proceedings
2004 Pig Conference Proceedings
As the key provider of technology, Teagasc continued to play a central role in helping the industry to successfully meet the challenges resulting from an ever-changing policy framework and continuing change in consumer demands and expectations. In addition to underpinning competitiveness and innovation in farm and food production, our services in 2003 were also strongly focused on environmental sustainability, animal welfare and farm and food safety.