Secondary and third level students will gain insights into careers in food science, research and nutrition at a series of one-day science fairs hosted by Teagasc, Smart Futures and SciFest.

AnaBio achieved growth of 150% by helping food producers deliver nutrients, and is now investing in expansion, writes Trish Dromey.

Agri authorities in Eritrea are to develop a herd better suited to their available feed sources thanks to a new Irish-supported breeding programme.

Industry leaders took time to honour an agrifood legend with the launch of the €4.5m Paddy O’Keeffe Innovation Centre at the Teagasc campus in Moorepark, Fermoy, Co Cork.

Motorists are asked to be patient this weekend as agri co-op trucks deliver urgently needed hay and other animal feed to farms nationwide.

The Cost Check calculator to estimate the cost of Somatic Cell Count on your dairy farm was launched at the recent Teagasc National Dairy Conference.

Liver fluke infections are no more likely to occur on “wet” farms than they are on “dry” farms, according to Teagasc Moorepark research specialist Riona Sayers.

A tool to measure the financial losses caused on dairy farms by mastitis has been developed by Teagasc Moorepark in conjunction with Animal Health Ireland.

Only one yellow card was issued and no red card was produced in the 2011 monitoring of Irish milk recording laboratories which is carried out annually by the Teagasc Moorepark National Dairy Research Laboratory.

A recently completed study by researchers at Teagasc Moorepark suggests synchronisation can be a useful tool in the management of reproduction in lactating dairy cows.

The benefits of feeding an appropriate amount of colostrum in a timely manner are well identified (use the first milk from the cow, feed the calf three litres within the first two hours of life).

According to ICBF heifers accounted for 23% of calvings last year.

ENVIRONMENT Minister Phil Hogan’s announcement that a climate change bill is not a priority, signalled a major change from the policy of his predecessor John Gormley.

SHINAGH Estates Dairy Farm is being provided with over €500,000 in start-up funding by Ulster Bank, to part-finance the setting up of the operation on the outskirts of Bandon, Co Cork.

INNOVATIVE cheeses, ingredients and flavourings are being developed to capitalise on the 2015 post-quota era, said experts at yesterday’s global Cheese Symposium in Cork.

FARMERS learned how to turn pig manure into money at a seminar on the findings of a three-year research project in Teagasc Moorepark in Fermoy, Co Cork.

TEAGASC Moorepark research officer on herd health, Ríona Sayers, has been appointed chief executive of Independent Milk Laboratories (IML), the newly established milk payment and disease testing company.

DAIRY farmers are outraged that Tipperary Co-op cut their September milk price at a time when producers in other jurisdictions are enjoying far higher returns, according to Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association (ICMSA) dairy committee chairman Pat McCormack.

GRASS growth last week on Curtins Farm in the Teagasc Moorepark research centre was only 13kg per day, compared to an average for the previous three years of 24kg.

DAIRY farmers will be provided with clear guidelines at Moorepark ‘09 tomorrow on how to cope with the difficulties their sector is facing.

DAIRY farmers were urged yesterday to use the next five to six years to prepare their farm businesses for a freer market in the longer term.

ONE million litres of milk a day has been shipped from Ireland to England over the past two months because British milk production is running 15% under quota this year, the Teagasc National Liquid Milk conference was told in Dublin yesterday.

THE pig industry worldwide is emerging into profit after the most serious crisis in the sector for several decades.

THERE is considerable scope for increased milk production when quota restrictions are relaxed, the two-day Agricultural Research Forum was told in Tullamore.

SIX out of ten inadequately fed cows failed to go in calf to the first service in a Teagasc Moorepark trial which showed that infertility in dairy cows is a continuing major drain on high yielding herds.

THE National Milk Rights Group has vowed to continue efforts to seek aid for improving animal welfare in dairy herds, despite their failure to get it included in the €7 billion rural development programme, which has been published in draft form.