The Certified Irish Angus Schools Competition, run in association with its processing partners ABP and Kepak, aims to encourage second-level students to gain an understanding about the care and attention that is required to produce and market the highest quality Irish Angus beef for consumers. The initiative challenges groups of students to rear 5 Certified Irish Angus calves for 18 months and carry out research on a chosen topic.
Our school group is one of the groups that have been called forward to exhibit project ideas at the next stage of the Certified Irish Angus Schools Competition to a panel of Agri-food industry experts in Croke Park on the 1st April, 2022.
The five schools who demonstrate the best understanding of the project will be announced as finalists and will be presented with their calves at the National Ploughing Championships in September 2022.
Our group created a 3-minute entry video based on the chosen topic of :Sustainability. Our project is titled ‘How the addition of seaweed to the diet of Angus cows can reduce their methane production levels’.
Pictured are the team with their mentor, Ms. Megan Murphy
L-R Rebecca Devine, Holly Morley, Erin O’Connor & Ella Kantii.
