Lecturer - Conservation Agriculture; Soil Health; Water Management; Climate Resilience; Agricultural Policy. Programme: MSc in Organic & Biological Agriculture.

Waterford, Ireland
Joined December 2019
Magnificent crop of min-tilled Winter Oilseed Rape in Co. Cork this morning. Complete and uniform cover protecting soil while harvesting rainfall across the field. @EUWatersofLIFE @agriculture_ie @BaseIreland @ecaf_ca – at Ireland
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All set for the 2026 Clonmel Agricultural Show tomorrow Sunday 5th July. Call in to see us in the Enterprise & Trade Marquee. @SETUAgriculture @agriculture_ie @NatOrgSkill @DeptOfSciSETU @SETUIreland @
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Beautiful Sunday in Castlemagnier, Cork with @robbycoleman1 hosting the @NuffieldIreland Triennial Conf. Tour. Productive farming in harmony with nature delivering enhanced biodiversity & water quality outcomes @EUWatersofLIFE @BaseIreland @SETUAgriculture @agriculture_ie
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🚨Saving lives cannot wait. 295M in acute hunger. 87M lives on the brink. Timely, practical agricultural support works, & helps farmers, herders & fishers rebuild themselves. @FAO backs @UNOCHA's #87MillionLives campaing. Governments: step up NOW! bit.ly/4rTjlDa
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Beautiful day in Dunhill for our Livestock Management postgrads & Mike Walsh. Organic dairy production from multi-species & forages produced on farm. Farm integrated wetland system & Anne Valley river walk #biodiversity. @agriculture_ie @NatOrgSkill @organictrust @SETUAgriculture
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From Tory Hill we headed for the Urban Food Co-op in Limerick. Thought provoking discussions with organic beef supplier John Liston and Joe Kelleher about the Mid-West Bio District @NatOrgSkill @organictrust @agriculture_ie @SETUAgriculture @DeptOfSciSETU @TeagascOrganics
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And here we are .... with the wonderful Anne Maher (Urban Food Co-op)
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Great day with SETU Land Sciences postgrads visiting Tory Hill Farm & the busy Coach House shop. Forthright chat on production, processing & sale of organic milk from the excellent @hqmulligan👏 @NatOrgSkill @IrishOrganicA @agriculture_ie @SETUAgriculture @TeagascOrganics
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And here we are .... with the wonderful Anne Maher (Urban Food Co-op)
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And on Sunday 8th there is this ....
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What a real treat from @NatOrgSkill at BioFarm 2025 - fireside chat between Jim Cronin and guest Gary Zimmer 'The Biological Farmer'. @agriculture_ie @BaseIreland @IrishOrganicA @organictrust @SETUAgriculture @Bordbia
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Delighted to visit Una Wycherley with Dan & Charlie Hogan at larkinshillfarm.ie near Puckane. Intriguing insight for our masters group on challenges of organic beef, crop & vegetable production @IrishOrganicA @NatOrgSkill @organictrust @Bordbia @DeptOfSciSETU @agriculture_ie
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Six of the male weanlings will be on sale in Portumna Mart later this week. Fantastic animals with great conformation (by their Red Angus bull - pictured below).
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Another @SETUAgriculture graduate in the news was 2024 Postgraduate - Sheila Murphy (MSc in Organic & Biological Agriculture) in @farmersjournal Well done Sheila. Mayo Abú 👏👏👏 @NatOrgSkill @agriculture_ie @Bordbia @IrishOrganicA @organictrust
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Behind the scenes last Friday with our 2025 @SETUAgriculture masters graduate class. Also present were Jerry McCarthy & Dr Ultan McCarthy and Dr Pippa Haughton with Paul Moore @NatOrgSkill @agriculture_ie @organictrust @IrishOrganicA @SETUAgriculture @DeptOfSciSETU
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A proverbial master class on farm economics, agronomy, local healthy food production, markets & the bioeconomy courtesy of @MauriceDeasy for our masters students in Ag & Hort with 🤫 fantastic Canvas Brewery beer. @NatOrgSkill @BaseIreland @agriculture_ie @Bordbia @DeptOfSciSETU
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A wonderful afternoon in SETU Waterford with our graduating class from the Masters programme in Organic and Biological Agriculture - excellent group and professional to their core. @NatOrgSkill @DeptOfSciSETU @SETUAgriculture @IrishOrganicA @organictrust @agriculture_ie @Bordbia
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Tough weather in the Comeraghs today with our postgraduate students. Plenty of water movement from overhead, overland, and under our feet ⛈️ @DeptOfSciSETU @NatOrgSkill @agriculture_ie @IrishOrganicA @organictrust @SETUAgriculture
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Back on the road - a wonderful visit with Nigel & Kate Gillis with our masters postgraduate group. Cover crops, soil biology, seed inoculation, & biostimulants the foundation of a profitable cropping enterprise 👏👏👏 @agriculture_ie @NatOrgSkill @SETUAgriculture @BaseIreland
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Lovely touch by O'Shea Farms yesterday for International Potato Day providing samples of Jazzy salad potatoes to our students in Waterford @bordbia @agriculture_ie @SETUAgriculture @DeptOfSciSETU @NatOrgSkill
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