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A compilation of 51 good practices (GPs), success cases and opportunities for Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs) across Europe, prepared by Teagasc with partners in the H2020 agroBRIDGES project. The cases come from Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuani
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Electronic supplementary material (ESM S1-S5) for a study that redeveloped a KASP marker for the H1 potato cyst nematode (PCN) resistance locus in potato. Bulked resequencing data from Meade et al. (2020) were re-analysed with the CoSSA k-mer subtraction approach. H1-associated k
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Agriculture
High-resolution images of grass-clover swards at Teagasc Moorepark, with ground-truth annotations for dry herbage mass and sward composition. The dataset was collected by researchers in the VistaMilk SFI Research Centre to develop computer vision and machine learning methods for
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This dataset has two linked parts from the Irish A. glutinosa breeding and improvement programme, begun in 2005. (1) Genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) reads from 103 plus-trees held in the Teagasc Oak Park clonal gene-bank (NCBI SRA). After variant calling and filtering these yiel
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Agriculture
Fungal ITS amplicon sequencing data (Illumina NovaSeq, 2 x 150 bp) from leaf, stem and bark tissues of five Eucalyptus cinerea trees in an intensively managed commercial cut foliage plantation in Co. Dublin, sampled on one day in July 2024. Tissues were pooled by compartment with
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Agriculture
16S rRNA gene (V4 region) amplicon sequencing data and associated colostrum quality data from 21 processed colostrum samples collected immediately before calf feeding on a single spring-calving Holstein-Friesian and Jersey dairy herd (Dairygold Research Farm, Kilworth, Co. Cork)
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The effect of diet and breed on global gene expression profiles of animals divergent for RFITeagascAgriculture
RNA-seq data from M. longissimus thoracis et lumborum biopsies collected from Charolais (CH) and Holstein-Friesian (HF) beef steers ranked as high-RFI (feed inefficient) or low-RFI (feed efficient) within breed during each of three consecutive 70-day dietary phases: (1) high-conc
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Agriculture
The NFS has been conducted on an annual basis by Teagasc since 1972. The purpose of the survey is to determine the financial situation on Irish farms by measuring the level of gross output, costs and income across the spectrum of farming systems and sizes. A random nationally rep
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This collection contains data from a study examining how animal welfare should be incorporated into assessments of agricultural and livestock-farming sustainability. It includes anonymised transcripts from four facilitated workshop discussions, a workshop discussion guide, and su
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Data from 77 faecal egg count reduction tests carried out on 24 sheep farms in Ireland between 2018 and 2023.
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The dataset contains details of a number of measurements collected from individual pigs who were more than 3 months old, on 20 outdoor pig farms in Ireland and Northern Ireland. The health and welfare measurements were collected using visual scoring scales, and cortisol concentra
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Agriculture
Measurements of multi-sparious pre-farrowing sows from four Irish pig farms
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Survey data which aims to collect information about sustainability assessment tools currently in use. This includes the dimensions, themes species, and production systems considered by each tool, as well as indicator interpretation, aggregation, and compensation strategies.
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Legume-based swards with no or low nitrogen fertiliser matched or exceeded yields of perennial ry...TeagascAgriculture
Dataset and full description forthcoming
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The dataset contains 2 files. All soil data stems from a field and laboratory campaign carried out over 2 years at 16 sites. Sites (n=16) are all agricultural grassland sites. The first dataset "Peat Soil on Grassland Dataset 1" contains site number (1-16), Sample number (1-397
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Plant Identity Impacts the Soil Microbiome More Than Interspecific Interactions in Intensively Ma...TeagascAgriculture
The data file contains multiple measured responses from sown grassland communities in a field experiment in which plant diversity was systematically manipulated. Communities comprised from one to six plant species and one to three functional groups. A summer drought was simulated
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The field site consists of a perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) paddock (paddock 14 on the dairy platform in Johnstown Castle), where the EC tower was positioned in the North-East part of the field site to maximize the footprint contribution from the prevailing South-Westerly wi
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MicrobiomeMilkMap 2021-2022: Data underlying the publication "Seasonal and geographical impact on...TeagascAgriculture
Season and location have previously been shown to be associated with differences in the microbiota of raw milk, especially in milk from pasture-based systems. Here we further advance research in this area by examining differences in the raw milk microbiota from several location
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Agriculture
This data contains grassland data: Grassland yields, forage contents and nutritive quality results. from a five-year grazing study (2018-2022) in Teagasc, Athenry, Co. Galway. There were five different sward types investigated
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Data underlying the publication: Structure-function relationship of oat flour fractions when blen...TeagascAgriculture
The aim of this study was to investigate the combinations of oat and wheat flour breads and to compare the structural-functional properties (particle sizes and substitution levels) of the oat flour fractions and their flour blends with the instrumental dough rheology, baking, a
