New collaboration to advance rapid silage and pasture analysis

A new collaboration between VistaMilk Research Ireland Centre, Teagasc Grassland Science Department, Goldcrop and FBA Laboratories aims to advance rapid silage and pasture analysis

(Left to right) Dr Karen Dawson, Teagasc, John Murphy, managing director Goldcrop, Dr Michael Dineen, Teagasc principal investigator and animal nutrition scientist, Professor Michael O'Donovan, funded investigator in VistaMilk and Teagasc head of grassland science, Conor Butler, director FBA Laboratories and Tom Butler, founder of FBA Laboratories. Picture: O'Gorman Photography

A new industry-supported research collaboration has been launched to develop animal feed analysis techniques tailored specifically to Irish pastures and silages.

The three-way collaboration project between VistaMilk Research Ireland Centre, Teagasc Grassland Science Department, Goldcrop and FBA Laboratories aims to deliver rapid, accurate feed nutritive value analysis to support data-driven decision-making across Ireland’s pasture-based livestock sector.