Irish Farmers Journal podcasts

This week, we talk to Adam about beef prices, Darren on the new sheep welfare scheme and we tackle Trump tariffs with Aidan. We also talk to Thomas O’Sullivan from Alltech and John Brennan from Grassland AGRO.

On this week’s show we have a fieldwork update, a report on planting progress in the North West from Stephen Robb and news on anaerobic digestion planning applications. We look at the paper and have the grain trends report. The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science.

Taking a break from the busy calving season to join us on this week’s Young Stock Podcast is Kate Fitzgerald. From a young age, Kate had a passion for livestock and farming. She would run home from school to help her father on their suckler farm outside Dungarvan. Unfortunately, her father passed away from suicide in 2017, which meant they had to make the hard decision to sell out the herd. At the age of 21, Kate got the cows ready for the sale and took on a full-time job in the local factory to support her family. We discuss her return to farming and why she decided to leave her full-time job to come into the farm enterprise with her husband, Shane and his father, John. She talks about completing the Teagasc green-cert in Kildalton and how she found the distant learning course. Being a woman in the sector, we talk about speaking up in discussion groups and the importance of having your say.

 This week, we chat to Adam about the rise in popularity of rearing dairy beef calves, we get an update from Darren on schemes and Aidan talks about ten years on from when the quota brakes came off. We also caught up with Bryan Harte from Tirlán.

On this week’s podcast, the IFA react to “shambolic” TB proposals, planning under way for nature restoration plan and booming trade in marts.

On this week’s Tillage Podcast we have an update on fieldwork, talk to Teagasc’s Steven Kildea on disease control, Luke Thornton of Omex on the do’s and don’ts of applying liquid nitrogen, we look at this week’s paper and as always have the grain trends and weather reports. The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science. 

Ciara Leahy, Helen Sharp, and Caitriona Morrissey discuss breeding foals along with the ups and downs that go along with it, while Helen takes a really interesting visit to the vets at Anglesey Lodge Equine Hospital.

On this week’s Young Stock Podcast, Peter Thomas Keaveney speaks with Tipperary native Kelum Harrington who left school at 15, and now is running his own sizeable agricultural contracting business.