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Symbol from the past points to a greener future for Irish farms
ST PATRICK WAS IRELAND’S FIRST ENVIRONMENTALIST, SAY SCIENTISTS Symbol from the past points to a greener future for Irish farms As Ireland and various parts of the world prepare to go green to celebrate St [...]
Constraining and validating models for investigating the impact of management on ecosystem carbon flows and changes in soil organic carbon (SOC)
Constraining and validating models for investigating the impact of management on ecosystem carbon flows and changes in soil organic carbon (SOC) Rachel Murphy In accordance with the Paris Agreement, Ireland has pledged to reduce [...]
Digital Dairy: How smart sensors could unlock the mystery behind what’s in our milk
Digital Dairy: How smart sensors could unlock the mystery behind what’s in our milk Hussain Khan Milk is a mixture of various essential nutrients such as fat, protein, carbohydrates and vitamins which may vary in [...]
Advances for breeding for pasture digestibility
Advances in breeding for pasture digestibility Aonghus Lawlor and Dan Milbourne Perennial ryegrass is a high-quality pasture grass for livestock. Breeding new perennial ryegrass varieties with a better nutritional profile for cattle is an effective [...]
Problem solving in agriculture: how learning from our past can inform better predictions for the future
Problem solving in agriculture- how learning from our past can inform better predictions for the future In the past, case-based reasoning was a way of using artificial intelligence to solve problems based on the calculated [...]
Sustainable estimation of biomass in grasslands
Sustainable estimation of biomass in grasslands Badri Narayanan -PhD Student University College Dublin From growing demand on their production system, dairy farmers need quality information about their grass to improve grazing and food supply [...]
VistaMilk PhD student scoops top prize in Artificial Intelligence awards 2021
VistaMilk PhD student scoops top prize in Artificial Intelligence awards 2021 VistaMilk SFI Research Centre is proud to announce that PhD student, Eoin Kenny, is the winner of the Best Application of Artificial Intelligence [...]
Dairy Processing Technology Centre signs MoU with VistaMilk paving the way for future dairy collaborations
Dairy Processing Technology Centre signs MoU with VistaMilk paving the way for future dairy collaborations A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed on the 9th August 2021 between the University of Limerick and Teagasc will facilitate [...]
VistaMilk SFI Research Centre launches new project to measure carbon harvesting potential of Irish soils
VistaMilk SFI Research Centre launches new project to measure carbon harvesting potential of Irish soils https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG1NpnA0z-4 Building on the recent investment by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine to establish the [...]
Antibiotic resistance: from soil to food chain
Antibiotic resistance: from soil to food chain By Rose Edwin, Ph.D. student, Teagasc Fig 1. Transmission route of antibiotic resistance genes from soil to human microbiome Antibiotic resistance has been recognised as [...]
Blockchain Masterclass
Blockchain Masterclass Cheryl Nolan, VistaMilk Site Manager Insight On the 18th of November VistaMilk, SFI Research center held a Masterclass on the topic of “Blockchain in Agriculture”. This virtual event was hosted by Prof [...]
A novel source of the Carotenoid Astaxanthin as a future ingredient in Nutrifunctional Dairy
A NOVEL SOURCE OF THE CAROTENOID ASTAXANTHIN AS A FUTURE INGREDIENT IN NUTRIFUNCTIONAL DAIRY By Alfonso Prado-Cabrero, NRCI The carotenoid astaxanthin gives the red colour to the flesh of the trout and salmon that [...]
Agriwall: a surface to extend the wireless communication range of energy constrained sensing devices
Agriwall: a surface to extend the wireless communication range of energy constrained sensing devices By Nouman Ashraf Although energy harvesting and wireless power transfer (WPT) have been explored for powering miniaturised and scattered sensors, [...]
FPT Detection Devices
VistaMilk Pioneers failure of Passive Transfer (FPT) Detection Device. New test is capable of rapid detection of Immunoglobulin G (igG) antibodies on-farm in the first 24 hours of life.. [...]
COLLABORATIVE ROBOTS DON’T BYTE – BUT ARE THEY “MAN’S BEST FRIEND”?
COLLABORATIVE ROBOTS DON’T BYTE – BUT ARE THEY “MAN’S BEST FRIEND”? By Norah O’Shea, John Tobin & Mark Fenelon In recent times, repetitive lifting and hazardous tasks such as packing / palletising and stock management [...]
Interpretable Time Series Predictions
Interpretable Time Series Predictions by Eoin Delaney Time series analysis may sound like a daunting task; however, anyone who is working with data that has a temporal component is a time series analysis! Some of [...]
DIRECT WRITING OF FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR MILK QUALITY POINT-OF-CARE TESTS
DIRECT WRITING OF FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR MILK QUALITY POINT-OF-CARE TESTS By Ph.D. student Alida Russo (Tyndall) Over the years antibiotics have been life-changing and often life-saving for both humans and animals. However, Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) [...]
Covid 19 Presentation
At our monthly Zoom call we had an excellent presentation on Covid 19 from Dr. Gerald Barry of the UCD Vet School. Below is a piece Gerald kindly contributed for [...]
Engineering Computing Devices Using Bacteria Natural Signaling Systems
Engineering Computing Devices Using Bacteria Natural Signaling Systems By Dr Daniel P. Martin, TSSG Recently, the advancements in animal microbiome research have provided insights into the role of bacteria [...]
Making an impact – Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence- Bridging the data gap in farming By Derek Greene In the past, Artificial Intelligence (AI) was largely confined to the fields of Computer Science and Statistics. Increasingly these methods are being [...]