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Getting Down and Dirty - Lessons learned from Teagasc s Soils programme
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The Teagasc Heavy Soils Programme was set up in 2011 to develop a network of dairy farms on poorly drained soils to act as a test bed for strategies and management practices that could be implemented to improve the efficiency and performance of farms dominated by such soils, which account for 30% of grasslands nationally.
Teagasc has published a new booklet - ‘Lessons learned - key findings of the Teagasc Heavy Soils programme’.
This new publication outlines the development of the participating farms over the last ten years.
Its publication coincides with the takeover of Teagasc social media accounts today, by one of the participants in the Heavy Soils Programme, Danny Bermingham, to outline what is happening on his farm in County Clare.
Lessons Learned from the Teagasc Heavy Soils Programme
The Teagasc Heavy Soils Programme was set up in 2011 to develop a network of dairy farms on poorly drained soils to act as a test bed for strategies and management practices that could be implemented to improve the efficiency and performance of farms dominated by such soils, which account for 30% of grasslands nationally.
Today, Teagasc has published a new booklet - ‘Lessons learned - key findings of the Teagasc Heavy Soils programme’. This new publication outlines the development of the participating farms over the last ten years. Its publication coincides with the takeover of Teagasc social media accounts today, by one of the participants in the Heavy Soils Programme, Danny Bermingham, to outline what is happening on his farm in County Clare.
May 6, 2021 12:14 pm
Teagasc has released a booklet detailing the progress and developments in its Heavy Soils Programme over the last 10 years.
The programme was set up in 2011 to develop a network of dairy farms on poorly drained soils to act as a “test bed” for strategies and management practices.
The aim was to improve the efficiency and performance of farms dominated by such soils, which account for 30% of grasslands nationally.
The booklet is titled ‘Lessons Learned – Key Findings of the Teagasc Heavy Soils Programme’. It was released today (Thursday, May 6).
The key focus areas of the programme to date have been land drainage design; soil characterisation and land management; soil fertility and nutrient use efficiency; grassland management; and farm infrastructure.
The legacy of Patrick Tuohy
To the editor: My first memory of Patrick Tuohy takes me to the McKay Street parking garage in Pittsfield in the spring of 2019.
We were on our way to do a home visit with a mom and her young infant. Having worked with babies and caregivers for decades as a pediatrician and infant mental health specialist, I felt totally at ease in the world of parent-infant relationships. But the opioid crisis and the depths to which it decimated communities already vulnerable from poverty and intergenerational trauma was more of an abstraction.
Pat, a family recovery support specialist with FIRST Steps Together, a program designed to address the needs of families with young children in the grips of substance use, would over the next year and a half be my valued guide until his sudden tragic death from an asthma attack.