Gráinne McMahon has been appointed assistant principal at Teagasc’s College in Kildalton, Piltown, Co Kilkenny, responsible for horticulture, student welfare, access, security, and rules and regulations.

CONSUMERS can help sustain Irish jobs by buying home-produced seed potatoes, apples and other horticulture goods, according to one Teagasc expert.

STUDENTS welcomed the unveiling of three new agriculture and horticulture courses at Teagasc’s Education Conference in Dublin Castle on Thursday.

IN RESPONSE to Dick Warner’s article (Irish Examiner, May 12), like himself I love cowslips. As countryside management specialist for Teagasc, I wrote about them in the recent edition of our Teagasc magazine — Today’s Farm, which is circulated to all Teagasc clients.