Posts Tagged ‘Farm Zero C’
AIB becomes partner of Farm Zero C
AIB, Ireland’s leading financial services provider, has become the exclusive financial institutionpartner of the Farm Zero C project, based in Shinagh, outside Bandon, West Cork. Farm Zero C, a joint project of Carbery, the West Cork based international food ingredientscompany, and BiOrbic, Ireland’s National Bioeconomy Research Centre, aims to create aneconomically viable, climate neutral model…
Read MoreFarm Zero C awarded funding for new integrated anaerobic digestion and green biorefining demonstration initiative
UCD and MTU have jointly been awarded a €3 million investment for an integrated anaerobic digestion and green biorefining development from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, as part of the Farm Zero C run by BiOrbic and Carbery on the Shinagh Estates Demonstration Farm in West Cork. The funding was announced today…
Read MoreAlejandro Vergara wins Top Young Bioeconomy Talent 2022
Huge congratulations to Alejandro Vergara on winning the Top Young Bioeconomy Talent 2022 at the All Island Bioeconomy Summit! In BiOrbic, Alejandro is a PhD student working with Prof. Kevin O’Connor and is an integral part of ‘Farm Zero C’, BiOrbic’s flagship project that aims to produce the world’s first carbon neutral dairy farm. Alejandro…
Read MoreFarm Zero C Open Day 2022
The Farm Zero C Open 2022 day was held on the 2nd of September at the Farm Zero C premises on Shinagh dairy farm, near Bandon Co. Cork. Farm Zero C, funded under the SFI Zero Emmissions programme, is a collaboration of minds from BiOrbic, SFI, Carbery, MTU, UCD, TCD, Teagasc, Shinagh Estates, and Grassa in order…
Read MoreDesigning an App to Help Farmers go Green
As a branch out exercise from Farm Zero C, some members of the research team are working on an app that would help farmers identify the environmental impacts of their farm, as well as come up with a tailored plan of mitigation strategies to implement. Farmers would simply upload data relating to their farm into…
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