Top award for disability impact study

A NATIONWIDE study on the impact of disability on farm management and income has received the top award in the Agricultural Science Association (ASA) International Research Fund competition for 2006.

The fund, which is sponsored by AIB, enables ASA members to travel anywhere in the world to examine technologies and policies that could benefit the industry here.

Shane Whelan, who is studying the implications of disability at farm level as part of a joint UCD/Teagasc post-graduate research programme, won the award for 2006.