Irish Farmers Journal podcasts

On this week’s Tillage Podcast we’re joined by Tim Looby, an agronomist with McDonnell Bros based in Co Cork. Tim chats about what’s happening in the fields at the minute and gives a run down on crop condition, growth stages and disease levels.Niamh Murphy attended a Teagasc Signpost Walk on Gavin Tully’s farm recently and we hear how he manages an organic farm.As always we take a look at this week’s paper and have the grain market and weather reports.The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science.

Political correspondent Pat O’Toole outlines the lay of the land just days before voters go to the polls to elect the 14 MEPs who will represent Ireland in Brussels.

On this week’s Young Stock Podcast, we speak to Joe Moynihan, the man behind the Co Kerry based business that is JM Agri Design, specialising in loader attachments and particularly well known for its range of over arm or elephant trunk bale handlers.

This week, we chat to Adam Woods on beef prices, Darren Carty on the recent weight gains at Tullamore Farm, Aidan Brennan on US developments in dairy breeding. We also talk to Edward Healy form Grassland AGRO about second cut silage.

This week, the news team discuss everything from politics ahead of European and local elections next week to anaerobic digestion, ACRES payment delays, how farms could help prevent flash flooding and mental health.

On this week’s show we chat to Claire Caldbeck of Rubisco Seeds who we met in the US last week. We hear about all things canola (oilseed rape), planting progress and weather. We look at this week’s tillage news and of course have the grain market and weather reports. The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science.

Though his Tik Tok username is Worlds Most Boring, sheep farmer and photographer Micheal Quinn from Co. Mayo entertains thousands of viewers with his and his sheep dogs Sally’s antics running a hill sheep flock in the West of Ireland, with Sally being the real star of the show who is also a fan of watching television.

This week, Darren Carty explains how exporter demand is driving lamb prices up, Adam Woods tells us about mixed messages on the beef trade and Martin Merrick talks about slurry storage and confusion over TAMS grants.

On this week’s show, we discuss the predicted exodus of small farmers, ACRES payments and new land leasing proposals.