Share

Irish Farmers Journal podcasts
Ep 1161: The Tillage Podcast - Boortmalt chat and Department on recommended lists
•
On this week’s Tillage Podcast we chat to managing director of Boortmalt Stuart Sands on expansion, carbon and forward prices. Séamus Kearney of the Department of Agriculture joins us to talk about the spring cereals Recommended Lists.
As always, we have the latest tillage news, the grain trends report and the weather report.
The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science.
More episodes
View all episodes
Ep 1186: The Tillage Podcast - Fertiliser, whiskey and drier weather
22:13|On this week’s podcast we have some advice for crop management and fertiliser spreading when for when the weather and ground conditions improve. We hear from Dermot Forristal on on farm trials, have all the latest tillage news and the grain trends and weather reports. The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science.Ep 1185: Young Stock Podcast - From teaching home economics to winter finishing
18:12|This week on the show Rachel Donovan chats to Josephine O’Neill from Bennettsbridge in Co Kilkenny.Josephine is a home economics and Irish teacher who hails from a beef and tillage farm. She is the second candidate in the Macra presidential race to be interviewed on the Youngstock Podcast.Ep 1184: Farm Tech Talk Ep 255 - Calving progress on Tullamore Farm, next CAP, weather challenges and grass growth
01:10:57|This week, Adam provides an update on calving progress at Tullamore Farm, while Darren shares his thoughts on the next CAP. Aidan discusses the weather challenges in Cork, and Adam also speaks with Edward Healy from Grassland AGRO about grass growth.EP 1183: Farming News: Planned CAP shakeup, over €7/kg for beef and ICBF row
17:36|This week we discuss the major shakeup planned for CAP post 2027, beef prices which are on the rise again this week as well as the latest on the row that continues to rumble on between ICBF and breed societies.Ep 1182: The Tillage Podcast - prices, protein, payments and costs
28:00|This week’s Tillage Podcast features an interview with Minister for Agriculture Martin Heydon, the Irish Grain growers Group’s Bobby Miller and Kieran Duggan from Tirlán. We have all the latest on malting barley, grain prices and we look at the tillage pages which feature crop costs and returns and fungicide star ratings.The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science.Ep 1181: Young Stock: The Cork contractor with a Grá for pit silage
23:35|This week, young agri contractor Conor Murphy from Co Cork chats about the path he took into the family contracting business, gives advice to young people eager to get going with tractor work and explains his thoughts on the future of contracting.Ep 1180: Farm Tech Talk Ep 254 - Who is getting €7 per kilo for beef, details around the new rules for peat soils and the benefits of early grass.
57:44|This week, we chat to Adam about who is getting €7 per kilo for beef, to Darren on the details around the new rules for peat soils and Aidan on the benefits of early grass.1179: Farming News - new peatland rules, ACRES and farm insurance cover
19:49|This week we discuss how new land drainage rules could negatively impact BISS payments, we talk about ACRES and the 15,000 farmers who have yet to be paid for actions already carried out and we also hear the latest from ICSA’s AGM which took place on Thursday night – on the night Rachel Donovan spoke to Micheál Brady from Axa on farm insurance and also the newly appointed Minister for Agriculture Martin Heydon.Ep 1178: The Tillage Podcast - payments, awards and contract cuts
32:48|On this week’s show we report from the Tirlán grain awards from markets to members and we hear from Teagasc’s Bridget Lynch on cover crop trials. We have all the latest tillage news including tillage payments, cuts to Boortmalt contracts and forward prices. As always, we have the grain market and weather reports. The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science.