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Teagasc celebrates 60 years of academic publishing

Teagasc recently celebrated 60 years of academic publishing with the launch of a special anniversary issue of the Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research.
Pictured at the launch of the Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research 60th anniversary issue are members of the editorial board and Teagasc senior staff and authority members: Triona O’Brien, food editor; Owen Fenton, environment editor; Frank O’Mara, director of Teagasc; Liam Herlihy, chair of the Teagasc Authority; Deirdre Hennessy, senior editor; Pat Dillon, director of Research, Teagasc; Cathal Buckley, economics editor, Catriona Boyle, editorial consultant.

This special issue consists of 12 papers, compiled in 2021 — the journal’s anniversary year — and highlights scientific advancements made over the last 60 years, as well as looking to the future to see how current knowledge, methods and tools can help us to meet the grand challenges facing the sector and wider society, as well as identifying gaps in knowledge that need to be filled by new research. The issue contains scientific papers on topics including forestry, potato breeding and production, pig production, milk quality and processing, meat processing, ruminant nutrition, ruminant breeding, the Agricultural Catchments Programme, grassland, animal health and welfare, and the role of social science in agri-food research.
Speaking at the launch of a special edition print version to commemorate the 60th anniversary issue, Professor Frank O’Mara, director of Teagasc, said: “Irish agriculture is in an ever-changing environment. Farmers and food processors are faced with a range of challenges on an on-going basis. Research that provides farmers and food processors with technical solutions to meet these challenges in a sustainable manner is as important as it ever was. This issue of the Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research reviews research over 60 years and highlights how current knowledge can be used to address current and future challenges”.
Dr Deirdre Hennessy, senior editor of the Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research and lecturer in Sustainable Agriculture at University College Cork, added: “This special issue brings together a wealth of research knowledge from the last 60 years, and provides a great reference resource of Irish agriculture, which will be of benefit to researchers, students, farmers and the wider agricultural industry”.
The Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research is a peer-reviewed open-access journal and was first published in October 1961 as the Irish Journal of Agricultural Research, evolving over the years to the current title Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research, in 1992, which is an amalgamation of the Irish Journal of Agricultural Research, Irish Journal of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology and the Irish Journal of Food Science and Technology.

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