Irish Farmers Journal podcasts

The Balmoral Show is in full swing with exhibitors and visitors from Northern Ireland and beyond enjoying fine weather on the first day of the show. My colleague Anthony Jordan takes us to some of the most popular tents to meet show-goers and exhibitors. Anthony Jordan speaks to new Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality Frances Fitzgerald about rural crime and the deployment of more Garda...

After 18 months of crisis, Co Cavan pig farmer Frank Brady is weeks away from having to close down his farm. He spoke with Irish Farmers Journal news editor Patrick Donohoe. On Tuesday, Phelim O'Neill met economist Dr Siemen Van Berkum from Wageningen University in The Netherlands at a European Parliament discussion panel on the trade imbalance between the EU and Mercosur countries. Macra na Feirm...

Joe Healy gave his inaugural address in front of the IFA's AGM this Wednesday. Listen to some highlights from his speech. Irish Farmers Journal news correspondent Pat O’Toole attended the second sale of animals from the Cradenhill herd in Co Cork on Monday. He told the Irish Farmers Journal’s digital editor Thomas Hubert what he saw as the auctioneer dispersed the herd on behalf of the sheriff and...

Five months after pay scandals rocked the IFA, the association has a new president. For his first interview in his new job, Joe Healy spoke with Irish Farmers Journal news correspondent Pat O'Toole. Meanwhile, news editor Patrick Donohoe sat down with the IFA's new deputy president, Richard Kennedy. Irish Farmers Journal dairy specialist Aidan Brennan analysed the performance of Charles Clarke, th...

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Members of the IFA are voting to elect their new president and the three candidates took part in the Irish Farmers Journal's live broadcast debate on Friday night. Editor Justin McCarthy asked them about their plan to address shrinking farm incomes, their thoughts on the number of marts in the country and their priority to reform the IFA. As the formation of a new government drags on, reporter Ant...

Anthony Jordan speaks to Aoife Osborne (lecturer for farm health and safety at UCD), John McNamara (health and safety officer at Teagasc), Dermot Ruan (professional work experience co-ordinator at UCD) and Arthur Byrne (public safety manager at ESB Networks) about the importance of teaching agricultural science students about health and safety on the farm. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy fo...

The two-month marathon of IFA election hustings concluded in Offaly on Tuesday night. Here are the closing arguments of the three presidential candidates: Joe Healy, Flor McCarthy and Henry Burns. This weeks marks one year since the abolition of milk quotas. Two Irish dairy farmers reflect on the past 12 months from very different parts of the world: Philip Ruttle farms in Co Limerick and Olin Gre...

With low prices for many farmers and some banks moving to sell off their riskier loans, the Irish Farmers Journal is providing continuing coverage of the financial situation across the industry. Digital editor Thomas Hubert sat down with agribusiness editor Eoin Lowry and farm finance specialist Peter Young for a financial health check of agriculture before the busiest part of the year really kick...

This week, Irish Farmers Journal editor Jack Kennedy was in Brussels when the Council of EU agriculture ministers met to address the crisis in farmgate prices. He met the minister for Agriculture, Simon Coveney, and asked him for his views on the measures decided on Monday. Meanwhile, Belgian farmers were protesting outside the building. Despite the disruption to the streets blocked by tractors, a...

Glanbia Ingredients Ireland's director of strategy Seán Molloy and Billy Kane from Finance Ireland Group answer Irish Farmers Journal agri-business editor Eoin Lowry's questions on the new Milkflex loans for dairy farmers. Marcelo Queiroz is a Brazilian beef farmer attending this week's Nuffield contemporary scholar conference in Cavan. He told digital editor Thomas Hubert about his 5,000ha home f...

An independent report commissioned by the IFA shows that EU policy protects the fertiliser industry from competition and costs European farmers €1bn per year in inflated prices. Irish Farmers Journal news correspondent Paul Mooney was in Brussels for the launch of the reports and has all the details. Nearly one week on from the general election, it remains unclear how a government can be formed. P...

At Saturday’s 'Stop the Flooding' Rally in Athlone, Irish Farmers Journal reporter Aine Hennessy spoke with farmers who have been badly affected by the recent flooding of the river Shannon. There, she also met IFA flood project chair Tom Turley and the three IFA presidential candidates Henry Burns, Joe Healy and Flor McCarthy. Markets specialist Phelim O'Neill discusses the consequences of a poten...

In this week's podcast, Patrick Donohoe and Pat O'Toole of the Irish Farmers Journal news desk discuss the results of a poll of 1,000 farmers ahead of next week's general election. On the campaign trail, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin answered Patrick Donohoe's question on the party's commitment to a €200/cow suckler premium. Co Meath farmer Michael Garrigan only went to bed for a couple of hou...

Public debates between candidates for IFA president and deputy president began on Monday. We bring you extracts from the debate, farmers' reactions and analysis by Irish Farmers Journal news editor Patrick Donohoe and news correspondent Pat O'Toole. On the general election campaign trail, news journalist Odile Evans spoke with Labour party leader and Tánaiste Joan Burton as she visited the food pr...

Charles Chavasse, a vet with the animal health company Zoetis, spoke about best practices to keep new arrivals healthy in a cattle herd at the recent beef finishing masterclass at Lisbeg Farms, Eyrecourt, Co Galway. Also speaking at the event was Joe Burke, who is charge of the beef sector at Bord Bia. Irish Farmers Journal digital editor Thomas Hubert asked him for his view of the market this com...

This week's Irish Farmers Journal looks in detail at the recent evolution of fertiliser prices. Agribusiness editor Eoin Lowry and farm finance specialist Peter Young discuss how much cheaper various types of fertilisers have become and how farmers should plan their purchases for the season ahead. Northern Ireland correspondent Peter McCann was at the Young Farmers Club of Ulster’s conference at t...

All three candidates for IFA president are interviewed in this week's Irish Farmers Journal. Pat O’Toole spoke with Henry Burns, Paul Mooney interviewed Joe Healy and Patrick Donohoe met Flor McCarthy. Last week, livestock specialist Peter Varley was in Bristol for the Global Farm Platform conference and he met Graeme Martin, from the University of Western Australia. They talked about rotational g...

Irish Farmers Journal news editor met minister for agriculture, Simon Coveney, for his last interview before the general election, to be published in this week’s edition and at www.farmersjournal.ie . He asked him about the challenges he faced in the past five years, late farm payments and progress at the beef forum. Bord Bia has released its report on Irish food exports for 2015, showing 3% growt...

This New Year marks the opening of election season – not only at the IFA, but also for the general election expected early this spring. Renua was the first party to present their manifesto to voters this week and they had a number of proposals for farmers. Irish Farmers Journal news journalist Odile Evans met two of Renua’s candidates. News correspondent Pat O'Toole discusses the expectations of r...

Irish Farmers Journal specialists discuss their highs and lows of 2015 and their expectations for 2016 in the dairy, tillage, beef and agribusiness sectors; and editor Justin McCarthy shares his outlook for Ireland's export markets and his plans for the Irish Farmers Journal in the coming year. News journalist Odile Evans reports on the expectations for the coming year in the beef sector in this w...

In this week's podcast, Irish Farmers Journal news correspondent Paul Mooney has the latest on government plans to extend the allowable period to cut hedges or burn vegetation on hills. He spoke with digital editor Thomas Hubert. There was a surprise announcement at the weekend that World Trade Organisation member states had agreed to scrap export subsidies. This is just one development in the fas...

The past week has seen catastrophic flooding around the country, and the river Shannon has been especially devastating to its neighbours. One of them is Shannonbridge dairy farmer John Claffey, the secretary of the Shannon Flood Committee in the IFA. He tells news journalist Odile Evans that lack of investment in the river's maintenance has made things worse. Now that the Paris climate summit is o...

Last week, the Irish Farmers Journal revealed plans by Larry Goodman’s ABP to buy a 50% stake in Slaney Foods, which also includes Irish Country Meats. News editor Patrick Donohoe asked markets specialist Phelim O’Neill what the proposed deal means for the industry – and for beef farmers. Odile Evans has a detailed report in this week’s Irish Farmers Journal about those young farmers who did the r...