TResearch Winter 2023
Rising to the challenge: Teagasc’s Climate Centre is spearheading innovative research to meet the biodiversity and climate challenges of tomorrow.

TResearch Winter 2023


Richard and Wendy Starrett’s award-winning farm in Co. Donegal is among the leading Signpost Programme farms helping to promote sustainable practices

One step at a time

The Signpost Programme dairy demonstration farmers are making progress in adopting the 12 Steps to Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions.


Improved analysis of soil carbon levels is a key tactic in combatting greenhouse gas emissions

Clearing the air

Carbon sequestration — the capture of carbon into soil — can be an effective tool to combat climate change.


Pictured are representatives from Teagasc, Bord Bia and government discussing the platform (AGNAV) at the National Ploughing Championships

Navigating agricultural sustainability

Teagasc’s new digital sustainability platform, AgNav, aims to create a centralised solution for farm sustainability assessments


Smart sensor networks can provide rural farms with crucial real-time data for metrics such as milk levels and grass growth

Sensor sensibility

Use of smart technology on dairy farms allows more precise management decisions for tasks such as grass allocation, milk yield monitoring and slurry application.


Researchers at Teagasc’s Climate Centre are driving some of the organisation’s most urgent work to meet challenges around climate change and biodiversity (L-R: Paul Smith, Simon Leach, Rachael Murphy and Lorraine Balaine)

Taking centre stage

Teagasc’s Climate Centre takes an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together staff from across the organisation to work on some of the biggest climate and biodiversity challenges facing us. Research Officers Lorraine Balaine (REDP), Rachael Murphy (CELUP) and Paul Smith (AGRIP) and Technologist Simon Leach (CELUP) tell us more about the crucial research happening within the centre.


Bacterial feeding nematode (top) and plant parasitic nematode (bottom) from grassland soil. Nematodes are often used as indicators of soil health and ecosystem functioning

A Worm Welcome

As part of international efforts to safeguard soil health and biodiversity, Teagasc researchers have been assessing practical farm-scale measures to enhance soil biodiversity in intensively managed grasslands.


Interaction through sense of smell is the main way in which pigs interact with their environment, including social interaction between pigs

Snout of Character

The Research Leaders 2025 project PIGSMELL is investigating how pigs communicate using their senses and how their positive interactions can ultimately support social stability and improve their health


Innovation gets a head START

By supporting researchers in entrepreneurship, commercialisation and technology transfer, Engage@Teagasc helps foster innovation, sustainability and economic growth. Here, we look at three new research projects getting a financial boost from Teagasc’s START Fund scheme


Head of the Curve

Teagasc’s Marginal Abatement Cost Curve seeks to inform and steer agricultural policy toward hitting targets on emissions mitigation. Here, one of its chief architects, Gary Lanigan, gives us a breakdown.


Grass and other plant biomass may represent an innovative new protein source for use in food and beverages.

Grass half full

Grass and other plant biomass may represent an innovative new protein source for use in food and beverages.


Research at Johnstown Castle seeks to quantify the effect of fertiliser type on nitrous oxide emissions

Spreading the good nutrients

Use of nitrogen-based fertilisers contributes heavily to greenhouse gas emissions. Research is underway at Teagasc Johnstown Castle to quantify the effect of alternative fertiliser formulations on nitrous oxide emissions


The interdisciplinary work of FLIARA is being driven by a wide range of academics and researchers

Project FLIARA

Teagasc and lead coordinator University of Galway join a range of partners across the EU to bolster female-led innovation in rural areas.


Advances in plant variety testing can help breed better resilience traits to preserve crop yields

Grain the advantage

Innovations in plant variety testing in Europe are laying the foundation for more sustainable agriculture. breeding better crop varieties is an essential component in the development of sustainable agricultural production systems.


Johnstown Castle winter-milk herd receiving their indoor experimental diets

Future-proofing winter-milk systems

?The Johnstown Castle dairy herd was established in 2003 to provide a base for winter-milk research within Teagasc...


Ruminants at pasture at Teagasc Grange are able to have their methane measured through the GreenFeed system

Measure for measure

An important focus for methane mitigation efforts is to develop strategies to accurately measure and reduce methane emissions in grazing dairy, beef and sheep, explain AGRIC Principal Research Officer Sinead Waters, Walsh Scholar Emily Roskam, and Research Officer Ben Lahart.


The Agricultural and Land-Use sector is facing an unprecedented challenge to reduce greenhouse emissions and increase carbon removal activities to meet national and international climate targets. The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine’s investment in research and development is key in meeting these challenges.

Funding a better future

The Agricultural and Land-Use sector is facing an unprecedented challenge to reduce greenhouse emissions and increase carbon removal activities to meet national and international climate targets.


Vijaya Bhaskar, Teagasc Crop Research

Getting to know Vijaya Bhaskar

Learn more about Teagasc Crop researcher, Vijaya Bhaskar


Cathal Buckley’s poster on the use of the National Farm Survey for calculating GHG emissions received great interest

Events: my take-home message

Teagasc’s researchers attend many events throughout the year, sharing the findings from their research with national and international audiences.


Transforming green to gold: the alchemy of Irish cheese

In Ireland, cows generally graze upon ryegrass monocultures. Multispecies swards offer benefits by increasing biodiversity and reducing costly chemical inputs.


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