Future Farming: How is Irish Agriculture Responding? [Part 3]
Part 3: Webinar
Trends in Ireland's Climate and Animal Disease Challenges
Event Date: Tuesday 30th January – 1.00pm
Event Location: Online via Zoom
Future Farming - How is Irish Agriculture Responding?
The third of our webinars in the series entitled 'Future Farming - How is Irish Agriculture Responding?' will focus on the current and future changes in Irish climate and weather patterns and what this means for threats such as flooding events. Coupled with this, the webinar will discuss how these changing weather patterns are impacting animal disease and parasite challenges.
Webinar 3: 'Trends in Ireland's Climate and Animal Disease Challenges'
Presentations: Prof. Conor Murphy: Current and future weather patterns in Ireland
Dr. Damien Barrett: Emerging threats to the health of Ireland's farmed animals
Speakers – Conor Murphy is a Professor at the Department of Geography and the Irish Climate Analysis and Research Units(ICARUS), Maynooth University, Ireland. His research focuses on hydro climatology, historical climatology and adaptation to climate change. Dr Damien Barrett is head of Ruminant Animal Health Division in the Dept of Agriculture, where he has responsibility for policy for ruminant statutory diseases, most notably the Bovine TB eradication programme.
ASA Conference 2024
Thursday, September 5th 2024
The theme for this year’s Conference is ‘Trading with the global consumer’ and addresses the current challenges facing our industry whilst also discussing the solutions. We look forward to hosting leading figures from both the Irish and international agri food industry to share their insights and solutions for the sector whilst trading with the global consumer.
