DATE: Tuesday, 30th April, 2019
TIME: 1.45pm
VENUE: Portlaoise, Midlands Park Hotel
This is a Department of Agriculture Knowledge Transfer approved event
DATE: Tuesday, 30th April, 2019
TIME: 1.45pm
VENUE: Portlaoise, Midlands Park Hotel
This is a Department of Agriculture Knowledge Transfer approved event.
| 1.45pm | Registration | |
| 2.00pm | Opening address Joe Healy, IFA President |
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| 2.30pm | Reducing costs and making an environmental difference Session Chair – Damian McDonald, IFA Director General |
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| Accessing the €10m on-farm renewables fund Michael O’Donoghue, Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine |
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| Reducing costs through better grassland management – Tullamore bypass farm Mark Coyne and Paul Fox, Teagasc |
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| Managing crude protein to improve performance Dr Karina Pierce, University College Dublin |
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| 3.30 pm | Panel and audience discussion | |
| 3.50 pm | Tea/coffee break | |
| 4.00pm | The furrow less ploughed Session Chair – Fiona McCoole, Environmental Protection Agency |
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| Once a day milking – for sustainability Gillian O’Sullivan, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford |
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| Farming cattle and trees – for success Pat Hennessy, Borris-in-Ossory, Co. Laois |
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| Lowland intensive farming and the environment Donal Sheehan, BRIDE Project, Castlelyons, Co. Cork |
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| 5.00 pm | Panel and audience discussion | |
| 5.15pm | Sustainability: consumers’ expectations
Dr. Paddy Wall, Professor of Public Health, University College Dublin |
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| 5.40pm | Concluding remarks & key messages Thomas Cooney, IFA National Environment Chairman |
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| 5.50pm | Conference concludes |