Irish Farmers Journal podcasts

This week, we talk to Adam Woods on the details of the new Autumn Angus bonus. We also hear from Darren Carty on ACRES and Aidan Brennan on his recent trip to China and the future of grass-based milk production in Ireland. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen now to get the latest on the ACRES payment shambles, a roundup of co-ops’ outlook on dairy markets and what an ex-EU trade negotiator had to say on Mersour.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week’s show we chat to Drummond’s agronomist Brian Reilly in the north east on the harvest and planting. We have all the latest tillage news from harvest and cover crops to whiskey files, along with the grain market and weather reports. The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Amy Forde chats to plough woman Katie Kehoe ahead of the National Ploughing Championships next week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Adam Woods chats about the beef trade, Darren Carty on the growing problems with resistance to dosing and Siobhan Walsh talks to us on straw price. Also, Adam chats to John O’Loughlin from Grassland AGRO on nutrient management. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, we hear from Green Party leader Roderic O’Gorman on the derogation and Meat Industry Ireland’s Dale Crammond about beef exports.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this special harvest podcast we visited a busy harvest intake in Co Laois and hear how things went in what was the peak weekend of harvest 2024 last weekend. Stradbally Town and Country’s Martin McDonald talks malting barley in his 36th harvest. As always, we bring you all the news from the paper, grain prices and have the weather report. The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science....

On this week’s Young Stock Podcast, Peter Thomas Keaveney speaks to David Thornton, a Kildare man who has recently been appointed as the Digital Solutions Consultant with Claas UK. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we talk to Adam Woods on positive beef prices, Darren Carty on booming ram and hogget prices and Aidan Brennan talks to us about his trip to a US milk factory and reviews Irish milk prices. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we discuss the latest on a possible shortage of finished cattle towards the end of 2024 and the trade in marts as a result. We look into fertiliser testing as well as the speculation around a deal between Tipperary Co-op and Arrabawn. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week’s show we talk to Wexford agronomist George Blackburn on the harvest so far, crop management through the year and planting cover crops. We have the results of a harvest yield survey, all the latest tillage news, the grain price report and look at the upcoming weather forecast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Niamh Doherty from West Cork has recently been appointed the Vice President for Welfare with the Union of Students Ireland (USI). The USI is the national representative body for third-level students' unions in Ireland, representing more than 374,000 students in over forty colleges across Ireland. With the Leaving Certificate results out last week and CAO offers out this week, many students are nav...

This week, we talk about the impact of the delayed harvest for livestock farmers, the latest news around slurry storage and how to manage poor August growth rates on dairy farms. We also talk to Edward Healy from Grassland AGRO on managing Autumn nitrogen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, we hear of plans to extend the splash plate ban to 15,000 more farmers, Government plans to exempt slurry storage facilities from planning permission and positivity around milk prices. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week’s podcast we talk to Dairygold’s head of tillage, Liam Leahy, on harvest in Cork and the wider Dairygold region, grain quality, oilseed rape planting and much more. We have an update on falling grain prices. Straw prices and imports are a hot topic and that brings up the issue of grass weeds. We talk oilseed rape planting, bird watching, baling pictures and weather. The Tillage Podcas...

Shannon Porter from Co Donegal set-up a milk vending machine on the home farm after coming home college in 2021. In the past three years she has added ice-cream and supplying milk to coffee shops to her business repertoire, all while working an on-farm job too. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Darren discusses the sheep trade, Aidan examines the dairy market and Martin compares TAMS reference costs with actual fencing expenses. Aidan also speaks with Michael Murray from ESB Networks about temporary electricity supplies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we speak to news correspondents Anne O’Donoghue, Declan O’Brien and Noel Bardon to discuss succession and inheritance, land prices, Dairygold’s plans to take on extra milk, what to do with out of spec fertiliser and the links between rainfall and TB. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week’s show we chat to agronomist Kevin Looby. Kevin is based in Waterford and east Cork, working with Pat Denn Agri. He talks through yield and quality from the harvest so far and some of the things affecting yield in what has been a difficult year on tillage farms. We also talk changes to crop diversification and rotation requirements, the Baling Assistant Payment and have the grain pric...

Gary Abbott speaks with Cork man, Andrew Shorten, Precision Ag Specialist with Vantage Ireland about his career to date, touching on his time spent studying, working with Claas in the UK and Australia as well as other opportunities along the way amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Andrew also discusses his decision to move back home in 2023 and offers an insight into his current role with Vantage Ireland...

This week, Adam discusses the positive weaning trade and the Beef Welfare Scheme, Martin covers the TAMS approval process and Siobhan talks about straw and forage crops that livestock farmers can grow. Adam also speaks with John O’Loughlin from Grassland Agro about fertiliser and fodder supplies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, we hear of record price paid for weanlings, the number of farmers withdrawing from ACRES and the opening of the new €50/calf suckler scheme. This podcast is supported by ESB Networks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week’s show we bring you the latest harvest report and news from the paper. We talk to Dr Barbara Doyle Prestwich about gene-editing, genetic modification, explain how these technologies work and how they can be a help to agriculture and food production. We chat to Seedtech’s Nigel Whyte on cropping plans and as always have the grain market and weather reports. The Tillage Podcast is...

A well-known figure in the sheep industry, Dwayne Shiels has many irons in the fire, and we found out just how he keeps them all hot. Lecturing, pedigree sheep farming and completing you PhD are busy individual tasks; throw the whole lot together and you get what Letterkenny man Dwayne Shiels balances in his day-to-day life. We chat to Dwayne about how he got started in the ag industry; growing up...

 This week, we talk to Adam about his Italian guests at Tullamore Farm and his conversation with Michael Murray from ESB Networks. Martin updates us on the store lamb market and Aidan discusses the lack of support for the dairy sector. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.