The Teagasc Map of the Month June is showing drought stress: https://www.teagasc.ie/rural-economy/rural-economy/spatial-analysis/gis-monthly-maps/ Agmet is exploring how we could put in place a national soil moisture monitoring network - please get in touch if you would like to be involved with this project.

News: Conference has been postponed with new date but same venue! The 2020 AGMET Conference  will be run jointly with the International Symposium on Climate-Resilient Agri-Environmental Systems (ISCRAES) organized by the Climate-Resilient Agri-Environmental Systems (CRAES) group in University College Dublin (UCD) in the Talbot Hotel, Dublin from 3rd to 6th November 2020. Research under the A...

After the severe drought of 2018, and with soils slow to recover from large deficits, Ireland saw above average rainfall across much of the country especially affecting the harvest season and through the second half of the year. The south east was the slowest to recover from drought with below average rainfall, until December, suppressing soil moisture recovery .  Despite the above average rainfal...

Conference theme: ‘Sustainable Diets & Equitable Food Systems in a Changing Climate’ October 23rd 2019, Dept. of Foreign Affairs, Iveagh House Through the forum there was an expressed feeling that climate change reversal is not possible without agricultural change. There are socio-economic co-benefits from developing joint research on the climate impacts of maintaining current food syste...

By kind introduction from John Hogan Farm manager at Teagasc Oak Park Met Éireann recently had the pleasure of contributing to a 50th anniversary book for the Irish Tillage and Land Use Society (ILTUS) which was launched on the 20th of June 2019. From the Met Éireann perspective the focus was on the milestones of the past 50 years of weather and how it has affected tillage and land use, and while ...

Science is playing an ever growing role in effective and efficient agricultural practices, Ireland is well known for its favourable growing climate and weather forecast data is increasingly being utilized for, among other things, grass growth modelling. While having previously researched the advantages in forecast model data to predict grass growth, McDonnell et.al have taken the next step obse...

Workshop on state-of the-art climate reanalysis dataset Met Éireann will hold a workshop on May 2nd on an exciting climate reanalysis dataset that has uses in any application that requires climate observation data. The workshop will be held in the National Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin Dublin and will include three keynote talks by European experts as well as presentations on topics such as predic...

Teagasc Ashtown will host a half day seminar exploring the pilers of sustainability,( economic, environmental, social and innovation) for farming into the future.  From the sustainability challenge to biodiversity, Teagasc economists, using activity data derived from the Teagasc National Farm Survey (NFS) along side research from natural and social science literature, will explore a sustainability...

Wrapping up the winter, February prove to be a very warm month, over half of the weather stations recording record February temperatures, with drier that average conditions everywhere except the far west and south west of the country. Overall this was an extension of the trend set through the early winter months with temperatures averaging 1.3°C to 2.1°C above seasonal averages across the count...

In our changing world energy efficiency, security and reducing the reliance on fossil fuels are paramount to navigate the future of dairying. This seminar aims to look at the problem and discuss innovative solutions and available support. The seminar will be held in Teagasc, Ashtown, Dublin 15 on the 22 February 2019 starting at 10am A link to the event registration can be found here  L...