Dr David Beehan, Chief Agricultural Inspector at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, today (Monday 09 March 2009) launched a new degree programme in Dairy Business at University College Dublin. The new degree commences next September and was developed by UCD and Teagasc, with guidance from industry.

“If you need to be convinced of the need for this degree programme you could look to the significance of the sector in the Irish economy, but it’s also important to look at the challenges facing the sector,” said Dr Beehan. “These are the stimuli to which UCD and Teagasc have responded and, I think it’s fair to say, the dairy sector faces into some of the most pronounced changes of any agricultural area.”

Read the full press release here.