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"There’s no way if you were at a mart you could fire this up and use it to identify a farm from which you were buying cattle," one of the researchers involved in the project said.

Climate targets and meat consumption will be among the key topics at the event on Thursday 28 November at South East Technological University Waterford.

Mairead McGuinness worked as an agri print journalist before going in front of the camera as lead anchor for RTE’s Ear to the Ground covering issues in the farming sector.

The 12-week hybrid initiative is dedicated to assisting new companies in the ag tech and agri food sectors, writes Sarah McIntosh.

The new data came from the UCD School of Agriculture and the Spanish research institute, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (IREC).

Emeritus professor of environmental policy at UCD, Frank Convery, outlined the risk to the farming sector if climate targets are missed. Noel Bardon reports.

The shortage of vets is long standing and is finally to be addressed through the designation of two new universities as venues for undergraduate training.

From a high-tech dairy farm in the Netherlands to a large-scale pig unit in Germany. Sarah McIntosh was in conversation with ASA Travel Bursary recipient Emily Mangan.