President 2012 Mr Dick Fitzgerald Dick is a tillage farmer operating in the Shanagarry/Ladysbridge area in East Cork and had been very involved with the Sugarbeet section of IFA over a long number of years. He was also a former officer of the Europoean Sugarbeet growers…
President 2011 Dr Barry O’Reilly Barry graduated with a MAgrSc in 1994 and completed a PhD in the area of crop science in 1999. After a short period as a Research Officer with Teagasc, he joined the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in 2000. …
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Summer Field Meeting 2015 Our Summer Field Meeting will take place this year in West Kildare and East Offaly on Thursday 4 June. In the forenoon we will visit Mount Lucas wind farm and Edenderry Power station, both owned and operated by Bord Na Móna. After lunch we will visit…
Council 2015 Stuart Goodwin – PresidentAnthony Collins- President ElectDick Fitzgerald – Hon secretIvan Whitten- TreasurerHugh McDonnell- RegistrarJohn O’ LoughlinTim O’ DonovanAndy DoyleShay GraceJohn MetcalfeKevin Looby FARM RepBill ShanahanEugene RyanMervyn Mc CannMichael Phelan
ITLUS President 2015 Mr Stuart Goodwin Stuart is currently working as a Machinery Enterprise manager and lecturer at Teagasc Kildalton Agricultural College outside the village of Piltown, Co. Kilkenny. Stuart graduated from UCD in 2002 having completed his Masters degree in Crop Production. He previously…
“Biodiversity in Tillage” – An ITLUS Workshop On 19 February we will hold our spring workshop and the topic of this year’s event is ‘Biodiversity in Tillage’. The topic was chosen in response to the imposition of greening obligations on the tillage sector in the new CAP from…
Winter Conference 2013 The theme for our conference is Adapting a Tillage Farm for ‘Tomorrow’. The next few years are likely to result in considerable change for the tillage sector. There are many factors, external and domestic, that are set to contribute to a faster than normal period of…
Summer Field Meeting 2013 Our Summer field meeting this year will take place in East Co. Down on Wednesday 5th June. We have had to move away from our normal Thursday date due to availability of our hosts. As some people may choose to overnight in the…
Spring Scientific Meeting 2013 This year’s Spring Scientific Meeting will take place on Feburary 28th in Oak Park, the topic will be Precision Agriculture More details soon
