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VistaMilk SFI Research Centre is focused on innovative pasture-based dairying and is co-funded by Science Foundation Ireland and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. During the course of this podcast series, we will introduce you to some of our fantastic researchers and the work they do here at the centre.

  1. Search for the Supercow

    03/26/2024

    Search for the Supercow

    Dr Maeve Williams, a post-doctoral researcher with Teagasc, joins the pod to talk about her research into cow genetics and identifying traits which can help breed more productive, healthier cows. Some might even call it the search for the Irish supercow.

    36 min
  2. Dairy Designed for Health

    03/19/2024

    Dairy Designed for Health

    Prof Paul Cotter, Head of Food Biosciences at Teagasc, joins host Jeremy Probert to talk about his work – including fermented dairy products and their health benefits, mapping the microbiome of milk to understand how better to use it for gut health.

    37 min
  3. Growing Better Milk

    03/07/2024

    Growing Better Milk

    Jeremy Probert is joined by VistaMilk PhD researcher Renata Kostovska to talk about swards – and how including different plants, which require less fertiliser, alongside traditional rye grass in pasture can benefit the quantity and quality of milk cows produce.

    33 min

  4. 12/18/2023

    Sustainability Standards

    Host Jeremy Probert talks to Keeley McGarr-O’Brien, a Walsh Scholar at Teagasc, about her VistaMilk-funded work to develop a better understanding of dairy sector sustainability standards and how they might be improved.

    33 min

  5. 11/10/2023

    Measuring Methane

    Teagasc Research Officer Dr Ben Lahart joins host Jeremy Probert to talk about his  recently-published research, which suggests that the amount of methane emitted by Irish cows is significantly less than previously believed.

    24 min

  6. 10/17/2023

    Solving The World’s Biggest Jigsaw Puzzle

    VistaMilk PhD researcher Rose Edwin joins host Jeremy Probert to discuss her work profiling Irish soil and its implications for soil fertility, plant growth, environmental sustainability, and human health. Rose's goal is to map the microbiome of soil but with trillions of microbes in the soil, piecing them together is like trying to solve the world’s biggest jigsaw puzzle.

    33 min

  7. 09/19/2023

    Grassroots of Sustainability

    Dr Elodie Ruelle, Research Officer with Vistamilk, joins podcast host Jeremy Probert to talk about grass growth, grass modelling, and getting to the grassroots of the sustainability issue.

    34 min

  8. 09/19/2023

    Wireless Comms for Cows

    Nadeem Rather, a PhD researcher at Tyndall Institute in Cork, joins the pod to talk about his work developing of a completely new material that will allow the transmission of data without any electronics or batteries – and its implications for monitoring the health of cows in Ireland’s dairy farming system.

    31 min
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VistaMilk SFI Research Centre is focused on innovative pasture-based dairying and is co-funded by Science Foundation Ireland and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. During the course of this podcast series, we will introduce you to some of our fantastic researchers and the work they do here at the centre.

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  • Creator
    VistaMilk SFI Research Centre
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2024
  • Episodes
    22
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