Irish Farmers Journal podcasts

This week on the show Rachel Donovan chats to dairy farmer Brendan Walsh from Co Tipperary who, alongside his father John, won this year’s Teagasc/FBD Environmental Sustainability Awards.

This week, we are debriefing on the week's events. In particular, the Suckler and Schemes mart event in Ennis with Adam and Darren and then Dairy Day with Aidan. We discussed calving heavy muscle sucklers and the nitrate directive.

On this week’s news podcast we discuss a liver fluke warning, future weather patterns and hear about a blight strain which could hit the potato crop.

On this week’s Tillage Podcast Conor Kehoe talks to a researcher from blackgrass trials in the UK. We listen to John Martin from Centenary Co-Op on a value-added product and we hear some of the agronomy talks from Tillage Day. As always, we have the grain market and weather reports.The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science.

Listen as the Irish Farmers Journal team debate the big issues that will sway the farming vote in the general election, take a tour around some rural constituencies and get extra nerdy by learning a voting strategy to keep a party out of power.

Charlie McConalogue, Martin Heydon, Pippa Hackett, Martin Kenny and Eddie Punch take part in a live debate on the key issues facing farmers moderated by Irish Farmers Journal editor Jack Kennedy

Stephen Robb talks to Robert Beattie Business Development Manager with Terrachem and Meath tillage farmer about his role and the future of the sector.

 This week, we're live from the FTMTA machinery show in Punchestown. We will hear from our machinery specialists Peter Thomas Keaveney and Gary Abbott. We will also hear from FTMTA’s President Karol Duigenan and SlurryQuip’s owner Richard Fitzpatrick.