ICSA Tillage chair Gavin Carberry has said the current flour shortage is a direct result of years of under investment in the tillage industry and has laid bare our over reliance on the UK for supplies. “It took a pandemic to expose just how dependent we are on flour from […]
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An innovative new project led by University College Cork (UCC) will use duckweed to treat wastewater, typically slurry, from beef and dairy farms. The project ‘Brainwaves’ has just received € 1.4 million in funding under the Ireland Wales 2014-2020 European Territorial Co-operation (ETC) programme. Led by Prof Marcel Jansen of UCC’s School of Biological, Earth […]
ICOS Skillnet – the learning and development division of ICOS (Irish Co-operative Organisation Society) has introduced a series of online and blended learning initiatives to support the co-operative sector, its members and their families, during the current COVID-19 public health emergency and onwards into the future. Over 30 online programmes […]
ICSA president Edmond Phelan has said a convening of the Beef Taskforce must be facilitated as a matter of urgency to assess and address on-going difficulties in the beef sector as a result of Covid-19. “It is incomprehensible that the Beef Taskforce would be left idle at a time when […]
A series of Online Teagasc Dairy Breeding Webinars aimed at Irish dairy farmers will run from Monday April 20 until Thursday, April 23. Visit www.teagasc.ie/dairybreedingseries for more details and to log onto the Zoom webinars. The first in the series will take place on Monday, April 20, at 10am. Tom O’Dwyer, Head […]
Irish Water is working at this time, with our local authority partners, contractors and others to safeguard the health and well-being of staff and the public and to ensure the continuity of drinking water and wastewater services. Great care must always be taken to protect drinking water supplies wherever pesticide […]