๐Donโt forget!!! Tomorrow!!!
@UCD_Ag_Soc and @ucdagfood
are delighted to host a talk on 'Building resilience for your Educational Journey", given by Dr @conor_holohan
, Programme Director of Make the Moove - the rural mental health and wellbeing initiative.
The talk is taking place at 1pm on March 5th in The Bin (G-15) School of Agriculture and Food Science, UCD. This is open to ALL staff and students across @ucddublin and promises to be an excellent talk with someone of Conor's experience and passion in this area. #seriousaboutsupport
#igadairy 9th + 10th January 2024 @CharlevillePark@Yara_Ireland
Session 1: Managing challenging milk prices.
Chair: @patrickgowing. Speakers @buckleytadhg + GD Young Dairy Farmer.
RT to let all know, tickets are all discounted by โฌ15 each online https://t.co/5hIKs4k8F1
@1noeloconnor@AFBI_NI@AgriSearchNI Hard to say for definite but possibly in the next 12-18 mths. Will depend on results from ongoing animal welfare trials and how quickly manufacturers can scale up. Cost might be a drawback at the moment too
Short clip from one of our virtual fencing research trials @AFBI_NI@AgriSearchNI This study looked at the use of VF for creep grazing in suckler beef herds ๐๐ฑ
@1noeloconnor@AFBI_NI@AgriSearchNI They'll get an electric pulse. Concept is based on associative learning i.e. animal turns/stops when it hears audio cue
Productive visit with my good friend @M_Mulkerrins in Texas last month ๐ Martin already making a big impact at promoting and growing the sport of handball in his new role @TAMU ๐ตโ
Few hours of behavioural obs with heifers this afternoon. Training to electric fence before they head out to pasture. Tan coming along nicely ๐จ๐ปโ๐ฆฐ๐ก๐ณ
First virtual fencing study in the US underway @UWMadisonCALS. Part of our ongoing VF research program @AFBI_NI testing the scope of this new tech and most importantly how it effects animal behaviour/welfare. New collaboration made possible thanks to @Fulbright_Eire ๐๐ฑ
@_ColleenSheldon@lyBRIDGET@ucdagfood Thank you Colleen! I won't get to catch up with yous this time unfortunately ๐ข Will be in the US for another few months
Great day at the annual @Grassland2_0 team meeting this week. Some exciting new decision support tools being developed to promote use of grasslands in the US. Very impressive work on outreach and curriculum development also ๐ฑ Thank you for the invite folks!