Irish Farmers Journal podcasts

Amy Forde chats to plough woman Katie Kehoe ahead of the National Ploughing Championships next week.

This week, Adam Woods chats about the beef trade, Darren Carty on the growing problems with resistance to dosing and Siobhan Walsh talks to us on straw price. Also, Adam chats to John O’Loughlin from Grassland AGRO on nutrient management.

This week, we hear from Green Party leader Roderic O’Gorman on the derogation and Meat Industry Ireland’s Dale Crammond about beef exports.  

In this special harvest podcast we visited a busy harvest intake in Co Laois and hear how things went in what was the peak weekend of harvest 2024 last weekend. Stradbally Town and Country’s Martin McDonald talks malting barley in his 36th harvest.As always, we bring you all the news from the paper, grain prices and have the weather report.The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science.

On this week’s Young Stock Podcast, Peter Thomas Keaveney speaks to David Thornton, a Kildare man who has recently been appointed as the Digital Solutions Consultant with Claas UK.

This week we talk to Adam Woods on positive beef prices, Darren Carty on booming ram and hogget prices and Aidan Brennan talks to us about his trip to a US milk factory and reviews Irish milk prices.

This week we discuss the latest on a possible shortage of finished cattle towards the end of 2024 and the trade in marts as a result. We look into fertiliser testing as well as the speculation around a deal between Tipperary Co-op and Arrabawn.

On this week’s show we talk to Wexford agronomist George Blackburn on the harvest so far, crop management through the year and planting cover crops. We have the results of a harvest yield survey, all the latest tillage news, the grain price report and look at the upcoming weather forecast.

Niamh Doherty from West Cork has recently been appointed the Vice President for Welfare with the Union of Students Ireland (USI).The USI is the national representative body for third-level students' unions in Ireland, representing more than 374,000 students in over forty colleges across Ireland.With the Leaving Certificate results out last week and CAO offers out this week, many students are navigating their way through the process and making decisions on their next steps. Over 250,000 students are expected to return to college this year, with over 100,000 living in the private rental market. One of the main challenges facing incoming college students is the accommodation crisis as they scramble to find somewhere to live in time for the academic year. 'There should be enough purpose-built student accommodation', says Niamh. She discusses the recently launched 'Digs Drive' and where students can turn to if they need support in college.Listen to the podcast below:To get in touch with your opinions and feedback on the podcast you can email youngstock@farmersjournal.ie or leave a WhatsApp voice note at 0868366465.