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New map shows TB breakdowns in your local area

"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.

1 December 2024 NEWS

Irish universities in final stage of 'Great Agri-Food Debate'

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

19 November 2024 NEWS
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McGuinness has more left in the tank

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.

17 November 2024 NEWS
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Careers: AgTechUCD announces start-ups to take part in accelerator programme

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

30 October 2024
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Ground-nesting birds declining faster than other species, report warns

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

21 October 2024 NEWS
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Financial risk to farming falling short of its sustainability goals

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

9 October 2024 CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT
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Vet shortages finally being addressed

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.

2 October 2024 VIEWPOINTS
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Milking 500 dairy cows on a GEA rotary

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.

2 October 2024
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Cork and Kerry farmers invited to shape bio-economic future

Teagasc, in collaboration with University College Dublin (UCD) and BiOrbic, has launched an online survey to gather farmers’ views on technologies.

2 October 2024 NEWS