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Farm Walk & Talk
The Agri Aware Farm Walk and Talk series demonstrates the practical elements of modern agriculture to second-level students preparing for their Leaving Certificate Agricultural Science exam. Book your tickets for Farm Walk & Talk 2025 now.
Introduction
Farm Walk and Talk 2025
Farm Walk and Talk 2025 will run across three weeks this spring.
Teachers and students across Ireland visit various Teagasc agricultural colleges and research centres, as well as UCD’s Lyon’s Estate and the Irish Farmers Journal Tullamore demonstration farm.
Through these events, students can gain real-life experiences on working farms. They also attend talks from agri-food industry experts and leading academics in a practical environment.
From observing cows being milked, comparing different breeds of cattle, examining soil profiles, lamb births, to watching piglets suckle and farm safety demonstrations the students get to experience the realities of the subjects that they are taught each day in the classroom.
Thanks to our Farm Walk & Talk event partners Teagasc, UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science and the Irish Farmers Journal.
- If you would like to bring your class to one of the events, please give us a call on 01 460 1103 to learn more about event availability.
Available Dates
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Booking Your Tickets
- Please ensure to follow instructions on how to book using our new system, video instructions are available below
- Attempts at booking multiple venues will result in an automatic forfeit of the booking.
- Tickets are NON-REFUNDABLE, All bookings are subject to payment
- Failure to pay 2 weeks after the invoice has been issued, will be deemed a forfeit of the booking and tickets will enter circulation again.
- After booking your tickets, please allow 15 minutes for your email invoice to appear, it will arrive from Jotform
- When the invoice arrives please use the payment link and enter the correct sum owed to pay by card. Paying the incorrect sum on the number of tickets booked, will result in the booking being null and void
- Should you wish to pay by EFT, please make note of your invoice number and make reference to it when paying by EFT. (Agri Aware bank details are listed on the PDF version of the invoice)
- If you experience difficulty in paying, we can take card payment over the phone or please email info@agriaware.ie to organise a callback with one of the team.
- VIEW BOOKING TUTORIAL HERE
- If you need a PO number added to your invoice or if any adjustments are required, you must inform us within 5 working days of booking. This allows our team enough time to process the request. If you're from an ETB school, please ensure that the remittance is sent within two weeks of the invoice issue date. For any adjustments or PO requests, email us at accounts@agriaware.ie.
Farm Walk and Talk Statistics 2024
- Record number of events and venues
- 14 events held across 11 farms
- 4000 Senior Cycle Agriculture Students participated
- First commercial farm to host a Farm Walk & Talk event ever in Co. Donegal
- Topics across the entire curriculum covered including on the Individual Investigate Study
- Every student receiving an Agri Aware Farm Walk & Talk Students Notes Booklet upon the conclusion of each events
I thought it was a brilliant day out at Ballyhaise Agricultural College. It was a well thought out event and well organised. Very efficient in terms of timing too.
The overall experience was wonderful in UCD Lyons.
Students had a great time. It was great day out and the experience the day to day to life on a working farm.
'Putting the theory into practice'
“Agriculture is hands-on and events like Agri Aware’s Farm Walk and Talk provide thousands of students with an insight into the practicalities of farming and the hard work that farmers do each day. We need the educated students of today to become future industry leaders and to continue to build on our reputation as world-class food producers.
This is why initiatives such as Farm Walk and Talk are of such paramount importance allowing students to experience the various farming techniques that they read so much about and giving them an opportunity to apply what they have learned in the classroom to a working farm, covering topics from soils and fertilisers to silage making and livestock. In essence, putting the theory they learn in class into practice. The event is particularly beneficial for students who don’t come from a farming background”
Shay Galvin
Agri Aware Chairman
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