- Full House with Attendance of Over 150 for Opening Speaker Lorcan Bourke of Bord Bia.
- Lorcan Bourke Reports that Vegetables and Fruit are Number 1 & 2 in Top 10 Most Important Supermarket Catagories.
- Pesticides are Number 1 Consumer Concern When Purchasing Fruit & Vegetables According to Bord Bia Research.
- Alice McGlynn of Bord Bia Highlights the Importance Now and in the Future, of the Origin Green Horticulture Sustainability Programme.
- Alice McGlynn Quotes Bruntland Report “Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”.
- Gordon Rennick of DOA Explained that Integrated Pest Management is a Requirement Since Jan 1st 2014.
- All Spraying Equipment Will Now Have to be Inspected Every 5 Years as Part of the New IPM Regime.
- Jim O’Mahoney of Teagasc Announces Course to Start at Easter to Train New Spaying Equipment Inspectors.
- Gordon Port of Newcastle University Talks About ‘Life Without Draza’ as a Slug Controller for the Commercial Sector.
- Gordon Also Presented on the Efficacy of Molluscides as a Back-up and in Tandem with IPM.
- Andrew Richardson of A&B Centre Presents on Cabbage Root Fly Control and Life Without Dusban.
