
Tommy Boland
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Assoc. Dean Research, Innovation & Impact @ucdagfood, Co-chair @gra_ghg LRG, Prof @ucdlyonsfarm @SMARTSWARD1 Past President @ASAireland, @EAAPofficial
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01-06-2012 21:56:24
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🚨new! Both grass-clover and 6-species #multispecies with lower nitrogen (125N) maintained grass yield and nutritive value relative to ryegrass (250N) under grazing systems (2 years) Grass & Forage Science: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gf…… #multispecies Wiley in research Brendan Horan

In a related paper from the same study, cow milk and milk solids were lower for PRG-250N, intermediate for PRGWC-125N and highest for MSS-125N. Milk and milk solids production per hectare from grazing were similar. journalofdairyscience.org/article/S0022-… Brendan Horan


Back in UCD School Ag & Food today to talk to fourth year students about sheep industry and farm policy / schemes. Good to see students still able to mix education with social activity and the good work ag society does in raising money during Agweek! Tommy Boland



🚀Exciting news from @UCDLyonsFarm! A new €1M Dairy Calf Education & Research Facility has opened, driving cutting-edge research to improve calf health & rearing. 🐮 #AgResearch #DairyFarming Huge thanks to our industry partners ABP Foods FBD Insurance Ornua JFC Agri @msd University College Dublin


It was a pleasure to be at University College Dublin Lyons Farm today for the launch of our new dairy calf facility supporting research, education and outreach in UCD School Ag & Food and UCD School of Veterinary Medicine. Thanks to our industry partners ABP Foods, FBD Insurance, JFC Agri, MSD Animal Health - Livestock, Ornua and Dairy Research Ireland.





This months UCD College of Health & Agricultural Science Research, Innovation and Impact “Research Insights” newsletter has a fantastic feature on UCD Lyons Farm discussing how it is leading the way in sustainable livestock and crop livestock research. You can view the full newsletter at: bit.ly/CHASNews


It was great to welcome the New Zealand Ambassador to Ireland His Excellency Mr Trevor Mallard and New Zealand’s Special Agricultural Trade Envoy Hamish Marr to UCD Lyons Farm this morning to meet with colleagues, share learnings and discuss opportunities for collaboration.



Happy to share the first chapter of my PhD has been published in Journal of Dairy Science, looking at plantain in PRG-WC mixtures🐄 🇮🇪 Please read it here: doi.org/10.3168/jds.20… Thanks to everyone for their help. Zoe McKay Tommy Boland Mike Dineen UCD School Ag & Food PASTURE_NUE
