Objectives
Research aims to promote environmentally sensitive farming and resource use practices in which environmental
objectives are fully integrated with those of production. It also seeks to provide a scientific basis
for government policy concerning agriculture and the environment, to understand environmental processes
relevant to agriculture and to provide options for industry to address significant environmental problems
such as pollution by silage effluent.
Staff are also actively involved
in eutrophication research and, in particular, the impact of agriculture on phosphorus loadings to Lough
Neagh.
Sub-programmes
