National Tillage Conference 2005
Coping in a changing market
26th January 2005
Dolmen Hotel, Kilkenny Road, Carlow.
Conference Papers
SESSION ONE: Chairman: J.I. Burke, Head, Crops Research Centre, Teagasc, Oak Park
- Medium term market projections for cereals and impact of agricultural and trade policies, Martin von Lampe, OECD, Paris
- Rotations: a new role in a new era?, Dermot Forristal, Teagasc, Oak Park
- Reduced cultivations – update from Oak Park experiment, Tony Fortune, Teagasc, Oak Park
- Coping with new challenges in cereal disease control, Brendan Dunne, Teagasc, Oak Park
- Lunch
SESSION TWO: Chairman: James Beecher, Assistant Secretary, Department of Agriculture & Food
- The Irish Sugar Industry – A way forward, Martin Ryan, Director Agribusiness, Irish Sugar Ltd.
- Opportunities for Biomass as fuel, Bernard Rice, Teagasc, Oak Park
SESSION THREE: Chairman: Paddy Harrington, Chairman, IFA Grain Committee
- Tillage Farm Finances: Assessing the impact of the single farm payment, Michael Hennessy and Fiona Thorne, Teagasc, Oak Park and Kinsealy
- Farming in a decoupled scenario – a farmers view, Shay Grace, Tillage Farmer, Clane, Co. Kildare
