Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 24 March 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion
Mr. Desmond Savage:
A few initiatives have started. We have an innovative partnership approved with Lyons Farm in UCD, which is starting next month on a trial. We have spoken to Tyndall and Moorepark and have some ongoing trials with NUI Galway and Grange. We are networked but it is at an early stage. Going back to my experience of seeing this in manufacturing, you get data integrity and the structures right and, once that foundation is laid, you can progress and start to use those data sets correctly as you move up the data food chain towards information, knowledge and wisdom. We are engaging but are an early stage company and there are challenges when engaging with institutes in relation to intellectual property, IP. That can be a hindrance but it is part of commercial reality.
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