The VistaMilk Podcast

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 super... more

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.

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 co... more

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.

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.

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... more

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.

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 monito... more