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The VistaMilk Podcast
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.
2024-03-26
36 min
The VistaMilk Podcast
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.
2024-03-19
36 min
The VistaMilk Podcast
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.
2024-03-07
32 min
The VistaMilk Podcast
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.
2023-12-18
32 min
Dairy Digressions
Behind the Scenes of Ireland’s Economic Breeding Index, the Complexity of Dairy Longevity, and Our Genetic Progress Towards Next Generation Herds with Donagh Berry, PhD
Pull up a seat as we dive into dairy genetics and Ireland’s esteemed national dairy breeding index—the Economic Breeding Index (EBI)—with the man who championed it, Donagh Berry, PhD. Berry is a quantitative geneticist and a Senior Principal Research Officer with Teagasc Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Centre and Director of VistaMilk SFI Research Centre. He joins longtime friend Matt for a special installment of Dairy Digressions recorded during the ADSA Discover Conference on dairy cattle lifespan to explain how he became interested in animal genetics through a love of math and his work developing technologies and too...
2023-11-14
52 min
The VistaMilk Podcast
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.
2023-11-10
24 min
Dairy Matters
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. A special podcast about the science behind dairy farming, published in collaboration with VistaMilk SFI Research Centre.
2023-10-31
30 min
The VistaMilk Podcast
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.
2023-10-17
33 min
Dairy Matters
Rise of the Bionanomachines
Host Jeremy Probert is joined by Dr Lee Coffey, Jennifer Drohan, and Dr Daniel Martins to talk about how the development of bionanomachines which use living bacteria to deliver molecular communications could benefit the health of animals and, potentially, humans. A special podcast about the science behind dairy farming, published in collaboration with VistaMilk SFI Research Centre.
2023-10-03
33 min
The VistaMilk Podcast
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.
2023-09-19
30 min
The VistaMilk Podcast
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.
2023-09-19
34 min
The VistaMilk Podcast
Rise of The Bionanomachines
Host Jeremy Probert is joined by Dr Lee Coffey, Jennifer Drohan, and Dr Daniel Martins to talk about how the development of bionanomachines which use living bacteria to deliver molecular communications could benefit the health of animals and, potentially, humans.
2023-09-04
33 min
The VistaMilk Podcast
Secrets of The Soil
Host Jeremy Probert is joined by Alan O’Riordan and Han Shao to talk about nitrates sensors.
2023-01-04
32 min
The VistaMilk Podcast
The Colour of Health
Jeremy from 4TC interviews Alfonso Prado-Cabrero and John Nolan from NRCI about the research they are conducting on carotenoids and lutein as supplements in yoghurt and the potential health benefits of these.
2022-12-02
44 min
The VistaMilk Podcast
Soil from Space
VistaMilk PhD student, Rumia Basu talks about how satellites are used to monitor our soils
2022-09-20
27 min
Dairy Matters
Tinder for Cows
Prof Donagh Berry, Director of the VistaMilk SFI Research Centre, joins host Jeremy Probert to talk about the bovine match-making service that is driving genetic and sustainability gains in Irish dairy.
2022-08-03
36 min