BovINE to host national beef event in Ireland

Beef farmers are invited to attend a national beef event hosted by Beef Innovation Network Europe (BoVINE) which will take place virtually at 8pm on Tuesday 26 October.

BovINE is a EU-funded project aiming to improve the technical, economic and environmental sustainability of beef farms across Europe.

It links farmers, advisors, researchers, and all other relevant stakeholders, across nine EU member states.

It aims to identify the current challenges farmers are facing in becoming more sustainable and then finding solutions to these challenges by collecting good practices from other European beef farms and practical research innovations not yet applied on beef farms.

Sustainability

The title of the upcoming event is Delivering a Sustainable Beef Sector.

Among those who will speak as part of the event are:

The panellists and topics will include:

Tom O’Dwyer from Teagasc on the new Teagasc Signpost programme on beef farms and carbon sequestration.

The second part of the meeting will focus on participation from the audience and the selection of priority topics for the project to address in 2022.

Participants will be divided into four breakout rooms to discuss their challenges in being more economically resilient, animal health and welfare friendly, and environmentally sustainable.

Adam Woods, beef editor from the Irish Farmers Journal, will summarise the outcome from the breakout sessions and identify the priority needs of Irish beef farmers for 2022.