Shona Baker

🌱Newsletter from @Multi4More project 🚜 Highlights: • Agronomic & sheep feeding trial updates • Update from Multispecies Workshop • Farmer survey results: reduced fertiliser use and barriers to adoption multi4more.ie/wp-content/upl… #multispecies @PallasTb @SuzanneHigginsM

Another @Multi4More harvest from Johnstown Castle. Great to get out for some fieldwork putting chambers back in the plots, for measuring nitrous oxide emissions across plant diversity and nitrogen levels.

Big thanks to @SnikeLovesYou + interns at JC + PhD students @seandenogla &@RachieConnolly at UCD Lyons Farm + Danielle Varley at AFBI, for their work on this project! @PallasTb @lyBRIDGET @HelenBSheridan @OlafUCD @SuzanneHigginsM @CarolineBrophy5 @shobaker @Zoe_C_McKay

Last chance to have your opinions heard! Complete our survey on Multispecies Swards. Whether you love them, hate them, or don't know enough about them, we want to hear from you! Survey link: surveymonkey.com/r/NHW7RQS @teagasc @TeagascOrganics @TeagascEnviron @ucdagfood @AFBI_NI

Well done @HelenBSheridan 👏👏

What are your thoughts on multispecies swards? Take our survey to share your experiences and help us learn more about how they can benefit you! #MultispeciesSwards #FarmingSurvey @pippa_hackett @martinheydonfg @ucdagfood @teagasc surveymonkey.com/r/NHW7RQS

A very busy but enjoyable few days comparing methane produced by ewes and lambs grazing a multi species sward vs a PRG monoculture @Multi4More . Big thank you to @PallasTb and the team at @ucdlyonsfarm for all the help and @Mc_CarronPaddy @TeagascSheep for providing the PAC 🐑🌱

Livestock Farmers!🧑‍🌾👨‍🌾 Do you use Multispecies Swards? Do you refuse to use them? What advice would you need to be better-informed? Please let us know [surveymonkey.com/r/NHW7RQS] @teagasc @smartsward1 @Johnfinn310 @lyBRIDGET @PallasTb @DLF_IRL @Germinal_Ire @agriculture_ie

Here @teagasc Ashtown for launch of MACC3. Great to see MSS included. Hard to imagine this even a decade ago. Shows importance of Research and vision by @HelenBSheridan @Johnfinn310 @lyBRIDGET and many others. Looking forward to the mornings information @Multi4More

Great chat with @KevinoHanlon12 today on organic dairying, MSS with @Johnfinn310 and Shona Baker, regenerative grazing with Marianne Mulhall and arable silage with @MartinB18391157 Thank you to all that participated and especially to our host Kevin who is a mine of information

🌱 Exciting news! The #Multi4More plots have been sown @ucdlyonsfarm as part of multi-site experiment including @TeagascEnviron & @AFBI_NI sites, aiming to enhance multispecies mixtures for sustainable agriculture. Well done @seandenogla, @HelenBSheridan & Eugene!! Now 🌧️🙏🏻

💥Fantastic opportunity for a statistics postdoc to work on global dataset from LegacyNet ☘️🌱experiment with @CarolineBrophy5 at Trinity College Dublin. (1.5 years) What effect of plant diversity on yield in expts across >30 countries? tinyurl.com/3a69ch5t

We were delighted to welcome Prof. Helen Sheridan from @ucdagfood to talk to our multi-species swards conference on trials @ucdlyonsfarm @DiscoverCAFRE @AFBI_NI @QUBIGFS

@lyBRIDGET The grass looks nice and green though 😜

Mixed emotions about the rainy weekend in this house 🎉🫣

Worth a listen 🎧, an update from @bhoranIRL in conversation with @childs_stuart on the current dairy grazing systems study in @teagasc Curtains Research Farm including a multispecies pasture treatment 'The Dairy Edge'. Listen along here: share.transistor.fm/s/be2d9a78

Today we have issued a new call for applications to the NPWS Farm Plan Scheme. This scheme supports and rewards farmers and land managers to protect species, habitats and biodiversity. More info and details on how to apply here 👉 bit.ly/42yndwC

Dr Elen Fitzpatrick @teagasc Johnstown Castle’s Clover farm walk on the dairy-calf to beef unit. #performancebenefitofclover

@shacklej @SaoirseT @Multi4More @TeagascEnviron Wagons!!!🤣

Shona Baker @shobaker @Multi4More getting back to her roots @TeagascEnviron #farmingforsoilhealth

Multispecies swards contain a mixture of specifically selected species from grass, legume and herb functional groups and has increased yields with lower fertiliser N, high forage quality and good animal performance compared to perennial ryegrass #FarmingforSoilHealth #GSBC23