Irish Farmers Journal podcasts

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 communityWe welcome any feedback andquestions you have for the Farm Tech Talk team. Please email farmtechtalk@farmersjournal.ie or send a text or voice note to our WhatsApp number 086836 6465Click here if you would like a weekly email notification whenFarm Talk is released https://share-eu1.hsforms.com/1LkIraRklQcK5mClBGXTpFgets9e Farm Alert is now available for beef and sheep farmers as well as dairy farmers. Manage your herd and flock health with ease by signing up at www.farmalert.ie. To get started, watch our quick guide on how to register and set up your account https://youtu.be/zZD-8C7X4LgLearn how to build your calendars to receive automated text reminders https://youtube.com/shorts/uPDisMFEY-k

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.

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.

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 volumeTurnoverDebt-levelNet asset valueProfitability 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 to Inside Dairy, get access now by going to www.ifj.ie/insidedairy or scan the QR code. A ten-minute trailer of this special Inside Dairy episode can be viewed on the Irish Farmers Journal website and social media channelsLink to view the slides https://www.farmersjournal.ie/news/news/watch-inside-dairy-special-2025-dairy-co-op-performance-and-milk-price-review-917282

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 taken Instagram and Tik Tok by storm, with the dynamic duo featuring on Ireland AM as well as local and national radio. Annie talks about her background in agriculture, why she began posting content online and how that has grown considerably over the last few months, as well as the negatives and positives of a presence on social media.Daire and Martin talk about what’s happening with them this week as well as who would play the Farmers Journal team if there was a biopic. Eoin Lowry, Head of Agriculture with Bank of Ireland, chats to Martin about financing land purchases; what banks look at in terms of repayment capacity, deposits and how it may affect a mortgage application.

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 communityWe welcome any feedback and questions you have for the Farm Tech Talk team. Please email farmtechtalk@farmersjournal.ie or send a text or voice note to our WhatsApp number 086 836 6465Click here if you would like a weekly email notification when Farm Talkis released https://share-eu1.hsforms.com/1LkIraRklQcK5mClBGXTpFgets9e Farm Alert is now available for beef and sheep farmers as well as dairy farmers. Manage your herd and flock health with ease by signing up at www.farmalert.ie. To get started, watch our quick guide on how to register and set up your account https://youtu.be/zZD-8C7X4LgLearn how to build your calendars to receive automated text reminders https://youtube.com/shorts/uPDisMFEY-k

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.

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 what’s in the paper as well. The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science.

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 predicted to lift, managing grass quality and surpluses will be a challenge. Aidan Brennan and Daire Cregg discuss the best management practices for getting the next couple of weeks right.Finally, on the breakdown we take a look at submission rates and what to do with those cows in the herd that have not yet cycled.Hear all of this and more on this week’s Inside Dairy with Aidan Brennan and Daire Cregg.