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Ep 1200: Farm Tech Talk Ep 259 - Beef prices, lambing season and positive water quality results
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This week, we chat to Adam on beef prices, Darren on lambing and Aidan on positive water quality results. We also chat to Emma Swan from Alltech and Edward Healy from Grassland AGRO.
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Ep 1205: Farm Tech Talk Ep 260 - Popularity of rearing dairy beef calves, update on schemes and dairy quota’s
01:10:26|This week, we chat to Adam about the rise in popularity of rearing dairy beef calves, we get an update from Darren on schemes and Aidan talks about ten years on from when the quota brakes came off. We also caught up with Bryan Harte from Tirlán.
Ep 1204: Farming News - mart trade, anger over TB proposals, and designations
24:25|On this week’s podcast, the IFA react to “shambolic” TB proposals, planning under way for nature restoration plan and booming trade in marts.
Ep 1203: The Tillage Podcast - disease control and advice on liquid N
31:51|On this week’s Tillage Podcast we have an update on fieldwork, talk to Teagasc’s Steven Kildea on disease control, Luke Thornton of Omex on the do’s and don’ts of applying liquid nitrogen, we look at this week’s paper and as always have the grain trends and weather reports. The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science.
Ep 1202: Irish Horse Breeding: Bloodlines, Sweat and Tears.
52:26|Ciara Leahy, Helen Sharp, and Caitriona Morrissey discuss breeding foals along with the ups and downs that go along with it, while Helen takes a really interesting visit to the vets at Anglesey Lodge Equine Hospital.
Ep 1201: Young Stock Podcast - 24-year-old Tipperary contractor talks about setting up his own business
26:53|On this week’s Young Stock Podcast, Peter Thomas Keaveney speaks with Tipperary native Kelum Harrington who left school at 15, and now is running his own sizeable agricultural contracting business.
Ep 1199: Farming News: beef boom, Macra hustings and grass growth
26:53|This week we discuss the booming beef trade, Macra’s 2025 presidential campaign and the two candidates in the running, cross compliance penalties, grass growth and the Irish wool sector.
Ep 1198: The Tillage Podcast - walking winter crops and planting update
33:01|On this week’s tillage podcast we have an update on fieldwork, report from the fields with David Leahy to look at winter crop agronomy, have the latest tillage news, chat maize and beet and have the grain trends and weather reports.The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science.
Ep 1197: Young Stock Podcast: the making of Farming Simulator 25
24:35|This week on the show, James Hanly held a video call with American-based video gamer Kermit Ball.Kermit is the community coordinator at GIANTS Software for the game Farming Simulator 25, the world’s largest realistic farming-related videogame.He breaks down how the developers capture all the machinery and buildings in exact detail, some of the games new features and if real-life farmers make the best players.