Its Finished Done and Dusted

Its Finished Done and Dusted
Hello Everyone, I have finally finshed my thesis. I have really enjoyed this experience over the past few months and I hope you have too. I will be presenting my work at the Climate change, Agricultre and Food security annual conference in Galway on the Friday the 7th of September, with a brief explanation of ...

Data Data Data

Data Data Data
Hello Everyone, Sorry I have not posted in a while, I have been working on my data, and getting the sections done on my thesis. Take a look at some of the graphs I have generated from my data collection at sheep farm to fork 2018. It was a really interesting day, and I found ...

Sheep Farm to Fork 2018

Sheep Farm to Fork 2018
Hello Everyone, Last Saturday I attended sheep farm to fork. I had a stand at the event and had a great day talking with the farmers on soil and water quality in Ireland. I got a tonne of insights into the inportance of water and soil, and farmers really thought that the project was excellant ...

Agri benchmark Beef and Sheep Network 2018

Agri benchmark Beef and Sheep Network 2018
Hello Everyone, Yesterday i attended the Beef and Sheep Network Conference in the Galway Bay Hotel. This conference was attended my many speakers from around the globe including Australia, Argentine, Brazil, China and the U.S. One of the speakers Brendan Dunford talked of the Burren Programme Burren Farming and also connecting people and place with the Beo ...

Cows Cows and More Cows

Cows Cows and More Cows
Hello Everyone, On Friday last I travelled to the farm of Jimmy and Edward Payne in Tulsk Co.Roscommon, and what an experience it was. The dairy farm is divided between two farms one in Ballymoe and one in Tulsk. Between the two farms they are milking 450 dairy cows. This is by no means a ...

Day One in Teagasc

Hello Everyone, Today is my first day in Teagasc. Here is a Picture of my new office space in both NUI Galway and Teagasc Athenry. Today I am working on gathering reading and summarizing them into a table format, this will greatly help with my literature review. Until next time, Sinéad