Irish Farmers Journal podcasts

This week, the team looks at straw imports, a big anniversary at Dingle Mart, Irish lamb in the US and Meals on Wheels.

Aidan Brennan and Daire Cregg take a look at the activities, talks and more happening this Saturday at Dairy Day 2025. If you are heading to the conference, this podcast will give you the latest information on talks, guests and more. Want a say in our next dairy podcast? Fill out our short survey for a chance to win Wawet waterproof leggings—your feedback matters www.ifj.ie/dairypodcast

In this week’s instalment of the Young Stock podcast, Noel Bardon chats with Robert Lally, who is taking part in the Farmers’ Haggard project looking to combat rural isolation while making farms safer places to work.

This week’s episode features Adam’s interviews from the World Meat Congress in Brazil with Kent Baccus on U.S. beef trade issues and Rupert Claxton on global meat consumption trends. Caitríona and the team discuss Ireland’s nitrates derogation, increasing bird flu cases, and payment cuts to beef and sheep schemes .

On this week’s podcast we chat to a World-record breaking soybean farmer, chat seed, Kerry grain prices and grain trends and weather. The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science.

The IFA’s nitrates derogation meeting, scheme payment rate cuts and farmer pensions all feature on this week’s Farm News podcast. 

On the first episode of our new podcast, Growing Minds, aimed at secondary school students, Sarah McIntosh speaks to two college students about the different pathways into agriculture, student life and the future of farming. The Irish Farmers Journal has launched a brand-new podcast series, ‘Growing Minds’, aimed at secondary school students and those studying agricultural science in school.On this week's episode, careers and education journalist Sarah McIntosh explores the different educational pathways into agricultural science through the CAO system and beyond.Joining her live in the studio are two third-level students, Ciaran McLoughlin, the Ag Soc auditor in University College Dublin and Ellen Feerey, a final year student from South East Technological University, Waterford. Hailing from a sheep farm in Trim, Co Meath Ciaran outlines why he decided to study a course in UCD and what growing up on a farm taught him from a young age. Ellen from Tyrellspass, Co Westmeath took a different pathway into college, spending two years in Gurteen Agriculture College before transferring into a Level 8 agriculture science degree at SETU. She outlines the benefit this had on her studies and why she would encourage other students to look into alternative pathways. Both students offer their advice on studying agricultural science, what to look out for when choosing your college course and what the future of farming looks like from a young perspective.

This week on the show we chat to John Smyth from Cavan who speaks to us about his involvement with the Aberdeen Angus Youth Development Programme which has taken him around the world for competitions. He’s a suckler farmer at home and is currently completing a PhD in Teagasc, Grange on reducing slaughter age.

This week, we chat with Adam who’s in Brazil at the World Meat Congress, to Martin about the Tullamore Farm cattle sale and to Daire about the new draft of NAP Nitrates action programme. We also chat to John Brennan from Grassland AGRO and Eoin Lowry from Bank of Ireland.