A recent episode of #TheSignpostSeries focused on the market opportunities for organic food. The webinar featured Dr Bridget Little, Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and Emmet Doyle, Bord Bia - The Irish Food Board. Watch it back here bit.ly/3xDoRTG
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This wk we visited the dairy farm of Bryan & Gail Daniels from Kilkenny who are 2024 Farming for Nature Ambassador nominees. Highlights:
🍃Owl & Bat Boxes
🍃Hedge laying
🍃Red & white 🍀, 50%⬇️in synthetic nitrogen
🍃Protecting rivers
🍃Soy free dairy nuts
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How likely are you to get a farm inspection and what can you expect? Raymond O’Neill, Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine District Inspector in the Integrated Controls Divisions, joins Cathal Somers & deirdre glynn on #TheEnvironmentEdge to discuss. Listen in bit.ly/42rh05j

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Teagasc has set up two helpline numbers to provide advice to farmers on how to manage their farms through this difficult weather period.
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Look out for tutsan with its last remaining black berry-like capsules, which have transformed from their bright red colour last autumn. Catherine Keena, Teagasc Environment Countryside Management Specialist tells us more here bit.ly/4amIsGv

Look out for woodrushes. These are grass-like plants with simple flowers. The leaves are like blades of grass with soft white hairs. Catherine Keena, Teagasc Environment Countryside Management Specialist tells us more here bit.ly/4amIsGv

Thank you very much to Joe Kelleher @Teagasc Emmet Doyle Bord Bia - The Irish Food Board & Bridget Little Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an excellent talk today on #TheSignpostSeries on 'Market opportunities for organic food.' Register on teagasc.ie/sustainableagr…

Don't miss this morning's #TheSignpostSeries at 9.30am. Joe Kelleher @Teagasc Emmet Doyle Bord Bia - The Irish Food Board & Bridget Little Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine will join us to discuss 'Market opportunities for organic food’. Register on teagasc.ie/sustainableagr…

Don't miss tomorrow morning's #TheSignpostSeries at 9.30am. Joe Kelleher @Teagasc Emmet Doyle Bord Bia - The Irish Food Board & Bridget Little Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine will join us to discuss ‘Market opportunities for organic food’ Register on teagasc.ie/sustainableagr…

Thank you very much to Jenny Deakin EPA Ireland for an excellent talk today on #TheSignpostSeries on 'Water quality and agriculture challenges and opportunities.' Register on teagasc.ie/sustainableagr…

Don't miss this morning's #TheSignpostSeries at 9.30am. Dr. Jenny Deakin, Senior Catchment Scientist EPA Ireland will join us to discuss ‘Water quality and agriculture challenges and opportunities’. Register on teagasc.ie/sustainableagr…

💧To celebrate #WorldWaterDay LAWPRO staff ran a Citizen Science #training course in Glenveagh National Park in Donegal for Conservation Rangers from National Parks and Wildlife Service & education staff from the park.

LAWPRO taught kick sampling, macroinvertebrates identification & CSSI surveys.

Dr. Jenny Deakin, Senior Catchment Scientist, EPA Ireland will join tomorrow's episode of #TheSignpostSeries at 9:30am to discuss water quality and agriculture challenges and opportunities.
Register here teagasc.ie/sustainableagr…
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Don't miss tomorrow morning's #TheSignpostSeries at 9.30am. Dr. Jenny Deakin, Senior Catchment Scientist EPA Ireland will join us to discuss ‘Water quality and agriculture challenges and opportunities.’ Register on teagasc.ie/sustainableagr…

Thank you very much to Owen Cashman & Dr James Humphreys Teagasc for excellent talks recently on #TheSignpostSeries on 'Lowering the carbon & ammonia footprints of pasture-based dairy production & The LoCAM Dairy Project at Solohead Farm' Register on teagasc.ie/sustainableagr…

Look out for shamrock, our national emblem. Plants with three usually stalkless leaflets are used. Lesser trefoil also known as yellow clover is grown commercially as shamrock. Catherine Keena, Countryside Management Specialist, Teagasc Environment has more bit.ly/3IGHyIB

Also growing now, the first primroses, peeping out on south facing banks. Delicate pale yellow petals deep yellow in the centre converge into a long tube. Catherine Keena, Countryside Management Specialist, Teagasc Environment tells us more bit.ly/3IGHyIB