We’re happy to join UCD School Ag & Food research project Protein-I! The aim is improve the production of plant based protein sources in Irish agriculture. We’re planting two varieties of winter wheat to asses disease resistance, yield and protein content Check protein-i.ie 🌾

Thanks to Stephen Robb of Irish Farmers Journal for the write up on our drone demonstration day last month! It’s on page 47 📰

Now that’s a cold day of sampling🔬❄️! Our soil drainage test is meeting completion!

Happy #WorldSoilDay We are working with Irish companies to develop new tools to improve our soils’ drainage, structure, health and microbe populations 🪱 There’s more to come!

As the year comes to an end, we’d like to wish everyone a happy Christmas and best wishes for the new year! This year saw us complete our first research projects with plenty more planned for 2025! 🔬🌾🚜🐮

Just a reminder to watch out for your local birds! Even porridge oats on a plate on an outdoor bin can do a lot of help!

There is an ongoing research trial out there somewhere 🔎👀 Happy new year everyone! We’re looking forward to an exciting 2025 🔬🌾🐮 #irishresearch

It was a great day at the Technological University of the Shannon Farm Diversification seminar here in Thurles! Irish farms are facing many issues. If we want farms to be environmentally, socially and economically sustainable, we need to start adapting to this changing environment. AgriNext Project

Plenty to learn here today at Teagasc Tillage Team National Tillage Conference

Great talk by Bridget Lynch demonstrating the effectiveness of cover crops at preventing N leaching Teagasc Tillage Team

John Spink illustrating the low carbon footprint of Irish crops, with straw incorporation is included. Oats in particular is a essentially net zero Teagasc Tillage Team

That’s the winter soil pH trial done! Looking forward to getting soil sample results so that we can assess which products can stabilise soil pH over winter months! #agriculturalsustainability

I’m looking forward to presenting a talk on our first research project at Environ 2025 organised by ESAI_ENVIRON at University College Dublin next week!

I’m happy to be back at University College Dublin for day 1 of ESAI_ENVIRON conference! I’m presenting our first research study tomorrow at 5pm 🔬

Delighted to start research trials for Humusoil products here on our research farm. More to follow! #regenerativeagriculture

The University College Dublin Protein-I wheat trial is taking off in the heat! 📈

Beautiful day out checking plots!

The final application to this year’s spring barley biochar research study is done. Let’s see lead tissue N levels we see between now and harvest! #sustainableagriculture

Looks like I’ve been replaced on the farm by Michael Flatley 😂!

It was great to have Abi and Israel Ikoyi from Technological University of the Shannon on the farm lately. We’re hoping to collaborate on upcoming research focusing on improving soil resilience with techinology. More to come!