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The genetic improvement of forages plays a major role in the enhancement of agricultural systems.

In the past, forage breeding has focused mainly on improving animal production potential but now climate change mitigation and reducing the environmental impacts of farming are equally important.

Balancing animal production targets against the need for more sustainable produ...

The successful appointee will support the research programme in the area of dairy calf-to-beef production systems which will include the delivery of the research programme as outlined in the Animal and Grassland Research and Innovation Centre (AGRIC) research programme, as well as contributing to the writing of research proposals and grant applications.

Duties will include g...

To develop, lead and implement a state of the art research programme in the production of suckler beef cattle with particular focus on the following:

Genetic and nutritional factors influencing the productivity of suckler beef cattle.

Increasing animal performance and efficiency from both grazed and conserved forages

Impact of both genetics and nutrition on environme...

The successful appointee will develop, lead and implement a research programme in the area of dairy-beef production systems with particular focus on the following:

Profitable pasture based dairy-beef production systems with reduced animal- and systems-level GHG emissions

Reducing the national slaughter age of beef cattle in pasture based dairy-beef systems through improv...