Adoption of science on farms and behaviour change
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Ground Floor Conference Room
| Wednesday, April 10, 2024 |
| 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM |
| Ground Floor Conference Room |
Overview
Session Sponsored by MSD Animal Health
Details
This session will encompass diverse agricultural topics around the adoption of science on farms. This session looks at sustainability, profitability and behaviour change.
The first two talks are sustainability focused, examining a grazing strategy to preserve microbial communities and using a data-driven tool to enhance farm sustainability.
Then we examine farm profitability and how beef production systems and seasonality impact on this.
The next talks address behaviour changes in both farming and research. We examine a solution to crop farmer-herder conflict and look at the need for planning and assistance to bridge the research-practice gap in the sheep sector. However, to influence behaviour change, we need to understand what actually happens on farm and this is addressed in a transition cow management survey. Then examining a behaviour change in the farming mindset, how can vets and farmers work together with flock health planning to control sheep lameness?
Session Sponsor & Speakers
Session Sponsored by MSD Animal Health
Mark Little
Veterinary Advisor
Fane Valley
Adoption of science on farms and behaviour change
Mark qualified in veterinary medicine from University College Dublin in 2002 and spent 10 years in large animal practice in Northern Ireland. During this time, he focused on herd health investigations and completed the Postgraduate Certificate in Dairy Herd Health from UCD in 2012. He worked as Technical Consultant for Zoetis and Elanco before moving to Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute in Hillsborough, where he completed a PhD with Queens University Belfast, on the nutritional impacts on immunity in the transition dairy cow. Mark continued to work in nutrition, leading the technical team for Trouw Nutrition Ireland, before joining Fane Valley in July 2021 to develop the veterinary consultancy team. Mark is a Nuffield Scholar, an Associate of the Royal Agricultural Society and a Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Specialist in Cattle Health and Production.
Mr Lance Woods
Ruminant Marketing Manager
MSD Animal Health
Invited Speaker
4:00 PM - 4:10 PM
Lance holds a degree in Agricultural Science, specialising in Animal Science graduating from UCD in 2007. Lance obtained his NOAH Certificate in Animal Health from Harper Adams in 2015 and obtained his Executive MBA from DCU in 2018. More recently Lance has just completed a Nuffield Scholarship and extensively travelled the world over the last two years researching his topic- “How Can Animal Health Positively Impact our Climate Change Targets?”
Lance has worked in the animal health industry for the last fourteen years and is currently Ruminant Marketing Manager for MSD Animal Health- Biopharma and Technology solutions for Ireland & Northern Ireland.
Lance is particularly interested in emission reduction and sustainability in agriculture.
Dr. MUHAMMAD USMAN
Post Doctoral Researcher
Lanzhou University
Dr Aurelie Aubry
Animal Scientist
Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute
Dr. Denis Meehan
Post Doc Researcher
Teagasc Grange Research Centre
Dr Austen Ashfield
Agricultural Economist
AFBI
Mr Paul Crawford
Phd Student
Harper Adams University
Ms Louise Horan
Phd Student
Teagasc
Dr Heather McCalman
Research Development And Sustainability Executive
Hybu Cig Cymru – Meat Promotion Wales
Chair
Mark Little
Veterinary Advisor
Fane Valley
