Irish Farmers Journal podcasts

Get ready for Down to Agribusiness - the brand-new podcast from the Irish Farmers Journal . Hosted by renewables editor Stephen Robb and agribusiness editor Lorcan Roche Kelly, Down to Agribusiness brings you inside the stories, decisions and people driving Ireland's food and farming industry. Each week, we'll discuss, dissect and analyse the latest developments across agribusiness, food, farming,...

Do you know what a bombshell is? This week the Young Stock team discuss the common terms used on Love Island, unique wedding features and the summer of freedom after the Leaving Certificate exams.   The main interview is with Cork native Cian walsh who hails from a mixed dairy, beef and tillage farm in Bandon. He discusses why he decided to study government and political science in University...

This week, Adam chats with the panel about the Nature Restoration Law, scheme updates, livestock markets, Tullamore Farm and managing grass. Darren Carty also talks to Peter Linden from Grassland AGRO about first cut yields from their Soil Sustainability Programme   Join the Farm Tech Talk community We welcome any feedback and questions you have for the Farm Tech Talk team.  Please...

This week’s show comes to you from Diddly Squat Farm in Oxfordshire where the Irish Farmers Journal team attended the Cereals event. We chatted to Ceres Rural agronomist Will Sturdens, hear from Kaleb Cooper and report the highlights. Importantly we keep an eye on crops in Ireland. Brian Reilly of Drummonds reports from the north east. We look at the paper and grain prices. You can listen to the p...

This week, the team looks at the blueprint for the next CAP, hears about the cost of growing spuds and talks about the Bord Bia governance review. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Inside Dairy Aidan Brennan and Daire Cregg get under the bonnet of the key decisions to be made after doing a grass walk.  Daire has a special interview with Emma Walls, CEO of the National Dairy Council on all things dairy promotion.  Meanwhile, Aidan gives an update on the dairy market where big price drops were experienced by all key dairy commodities.  Plus key watc...

Inside Dairy  is the weekly subscription podcast hosted by Aidan Brennan and Daire Cregg. Each week, Aidan and Daire take an in-depth look at milk prices, commodity markets and the key issues shaping the dairy sector in Ireland and around the world. They break down the most important topic of the week, offering expert analysis, practical insights, informed opinion and advice that dairy farmer...

Lisa O' Rourke's journey to the top of boxing is an interesting one and far from straightforward.  Growing up on a farm in Roscommon, Lisa only started boxing at the age of 15. Since then, it's been a roller-coaster journey - one that involves her sister Aoife, the GAA, plenty of setbacks and ultimately a World Championship title. In this interview, Lisa lets us inside the curtain of what it...

On this week’s show, Adam is joined by Aidan Brennan, Siobhán Walsh and Tommy Moyles to discuss the latest weather challenges on farms, crop conditions, cattle export trends and what the El Niño weather event could mean for Irish farming. The panel also discuss CAP payments, while Shaun Diver brings the first of his weekly updates from Tullamore Farm.   Join the Farm Tech Talk community We we...

On this week’s podcast we chatted to Olivier de Matos who is the director general of CropLife Europe, an organisation that lobbies for improved crop protection in Europe for genetic techniques to pesticides and digital technologies. We have a fieldwork update and the grain trends and weather reports. The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...

Inside the Farmers Journal: Big landowners in Fine Gael’s CAP firing line               On this week’s show, the team examines the top CAP payments in the country, how large landowners are in Fine Gael’s crosshairs and we hear from Phil Hogan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week's  Inside Dairy , we discuss the recent bounce in grass growth and what it means for grazing management over the coming weeks. We look at where stocking rates should be pitched for the remainder of the grazing season and how farmers can make the most of improving grass supplies. We also tackle a topic that is often talked about, but not always acted upon –  cashflow bud...

Hailing from Carlow, Shane Maher joins Hannah Furlong on this week’s podcast to chat about his path to completing a PhD focused on innovative nutritional strategies to enhance pig performance, health and environmental sustainability in UCD. Having not grown up on a farm, Shane chats about how he went on to study agricultural science at university and how he got involved with the Irish Shows Associ...

On this week’s show, Stephen talks to the panel about a proposed €26 million budget cut for the Department of Agriculture, grass growth, heat stress, livestock trade and the DairyCon conference. Stephen also chats to John O’Loughlin from Grassland AGRO about CBAM.   Join the Farm Tech Talk community We welcome any feedback and questions you have for the Farm Tech Talk team.  Please email...

On this week’s Tillage Podcast, we chat to the head of farming and agribusiness at the World Bank, Anup Jagwani. We chat to Edwini Kessie, who is the director of agriculture and commodities at the World Trade Organisation. There’s a fieldwork, grain trends, and weather report, as well as a look at the paper. The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri...

Inside the Farmers Journal: should Ireland eat its way out of its deer problem? On this week’s show, the team talks about the rise in deer numbers, forestry payments and hears from officials in the US on farming. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lorcan Roche Kelly,  Irish Farmers Journal  Agribusiness editor, joins Aidan and Daire to discuss how the major milk processors performed throughout 2025 in terms of:   Milk volume Turnover Debt-level Net asset value Profitability   Inside Dairy subscribers can access this special episode via the email that they received on Wednesday 27 May. If you are not already a subscriber...

On this week’s Youngstock podcast, Annie McGuinness joins Martin Merrick to talk about her rising social media following, the positives and negatives and her involvement with the Cooley sheep breeders. Annie McGuinness has seen her social media reach sky rocket from under 10,000 followers to over 80,000 in the space of a few short months. The proud Louth farmer and her viral pet lamb Grá have take...

This week, Stephen and the panel discuss the EU fertiliser plan, hogget prices, the new TB on-farm biosecurity programme, BlSS, and Kerry Dairy Ireland's new name. Stephen also chats to Clodagh Bolger from Grassland AGRO about reseeding.   Join the Farm Tech Talk community We welcome any feedback and questions you have for the Farm Tech Talk team.  Please email  farmtechtalk@farmers...

On this week’s show Declan O’Brien looks at the revival in suckler numbers, we look at tree planting levels and the EU’s fertiliser plan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We report from the World Seed Congress this week. We chat to a French farmer and grain analyst, Arthur Portier, from Argus Media. We met Goldcrop’s Donal Fitzgerald, who was doing business and trading seed at the congress, and we chatted to the North American Grain Export Association on the US-China trade deal and deforestation regulations. It’s a jam-packed episode, and we’ll let you know wh...

This week on Inside Dairy, we hear from Ornua’s Ciarán Aylward on the latest trends in dairy markets from supply and demand to future outlooks on milk price. CEO of Kinisla, formerly known as Kerry Dairy Ireland, Pat Murphy discusses the co-op’s name change and we review the performance of the business in 2025. With the weather forecast expected to pick up from the weekend and growth rates predict...

On this week’s podcast, Sarah McIntosh speaks to Monaghan native Niall Hurson about his Nuffield Scholarship and the importance of gaining perspective abroad Suckler farmer and 2024 Nuffield Scholar Niall Hurson from Smithborough, Co Monaghan, is this week’s Young Stock Podcast guest.  Niall discusses his career pathway from graduating from University College Dublin with an animal science deg...

This week, Stephen and the panel are live from Balmoral Show 2026 in Belfast, discussing all things farming. Adam Woods also talks to John McLenaghan, UFU President, about what’s on farmers minds at the show.    Join the Farm Tech Talk community We welcome any feedback and questions you have for the Farm Tech Talk team.  Please email  farmtechtalk@farmersjournal.ie  or sen...

On this week’s show we bring you to the opening of the new Diageo brewery in Co Kildare, chat to Minister Martin Heydon and Drinks Ireland’s Cormac Healy. We hear how treating Irish grain can result in a lower carbon footprint in pig production, look at the paper, talk T2s on winter wheat and have the grain trends and weather reports. The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science. Hosted...