November 2018 – MastiSTAPH

Science Week 2018

10:53AM Nov 15, 2018
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Yesterday I had the chance to participate in Teagasc events for the Festival of Farming and Food, in the frame of SFI Science Week 2018. On the 13th and 14th of November, Teagasc Grange hosted primary school students from the locality as well as from the Trinity Access Programme and secondary school students from local schools. The […]

Beginning of farm visits

11:04AM Nov 02, 2018
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So farm visits have finally kicked off! Although cows are currently in late lactation we hopefully will have enough time to sample about half of the target farms before they house the animals in late November. Eoin Ryan (UCD) has been joining me in the farm visits, what’s been a massive help. He has great experience as […]