Irish Farmers Journal podcasts

Listen as the Irish Farmers Journal team recount the highs and lows of the year gone by and predict what might happen in 2026.Join the Irish Farmers Journal team as they discuss the highlights and low points of 2025 for farmers in the beef, dairy, sheep and tillage sectors.Adam Woods talks beef and weanling prices, as well as the Mercosur deal and Brazilian beef.Darren Carty assesses how sheep farmers will begin the new year after a major drop in sheep production.Aidan Brennan addresses the harsh milk price cuts and the mergers that are changing the Irish dairy co-op scene.

Stephen Robb talks to Ide Hennessy, Environmental Compliance Officer with Nephin Renewable Gas, about her journey forging a career in Ireland’s emerging anaerobic digestion sector.This Christmas, we want to showcase life on farms right across Ireland and we’d love you to be part of it.Share your favourite festive pictures and you could see them featured in the Irish Farmers Journal online, in our app and across our social media channels.Go to www.ifj.ie/christmasonyourfarm and show us Christmas on your farm.

This week, Martin chats about the new building exemptions, Darren about bluetongue vaccinations getting the green light an d Daire chats milk prices. Adam joins us live from the Mercusor demonstrations in Brussels. Farm Tech Talk is growing and we want you to be a part of its future. Go to www.ifj.ie/fttsurvey to fill out our survey and you could win a farm bucket full of Irish Farmers Journal merchandise.Join the Farm Tech Talk community — your feedback keeps us growing. This Christmas, we want to showcase life on farms right across Ireland and we’d love you to be part of it.Share your favourite festive pictures and you could see them featured in the Irish Farmers Journal online, in our app and across our social media channels.Go to www.ifj.ie/christmasonyourfarm and show us Christmas on your farm.

Inside the Farmers Journal: who’s taking the John Deere to Brussels?  Mercosur is the main topic on the agenda for the last episode of </i>Inside the Farmers Journal</i> this year.Political correspondent Pat O’Toole joins us to discuss where countries across the EU currently stand on the trade deal, as well as where politicians support at home lies. We hear from Tom Gorman, as he prepares to head off with his dad, IFA president Francie Gorman, to a protest in Brussels opposing the deal.And we round off the year, with a look back at the main events that shaped farming in 2025 and what might be on the horizon next year.Farm Tech Talk is growing and we want you to be a part of its future. Go to www.ifj.ie/fttsurvey to fill out our survey and you could win a farm bucket full of Irish Farmers Journal merchandise.Join the Farm Tech Talk community — your feedback keeps us growing.  This Christmas, we want to showcase life on farms right across Ireland and we’d love you to be part of it.Share your favourite festive pictures and you could see them featured in the Irish Farmers Journal online, in our app and across our social media channels.Go to www.ifj.ie/christmasonyourfarm and show us Christmas on your farm.

In the third episode of the new podcast aimed at secondary school students, experts share key advice on how students can succeed with their Individual Investigative StudyThe latest instalment of our new podcast series, Growing Minds, which was created to support secondary school students and those pursuing agricultural science, is now live.In episode two part two of Growing Minds, Roisin Byrne, who is the ag science coordinator at Agri Aware, sits down with Iain Wallace, the education officer at IASTA and ag science teacher at Wesley College.  Sitting down to record the podcast, they have an in-depth discussion on the Individual Investigative Study (IIS) and explore the key takeaways for students to keep an eye out for. The IIS forms a large part of the ag science curriculum, as it accounts for 25% of the total Leaving Certificate subject results. Roisin and Iain talk about defining the investigation theme, structuring your study, the best approaches for each section, understanding word count and marking criteria and the importance of proper referencing

Join Sarah McIntosh and Daire Cregg as they catch us up on their stories in the farmers journal this week, before Peter Thomas Keaveney interview Janik Marek, a 22 year-old Austrian native who tells us about his home dairy farm in Austria, his current role on a 1,000 cow herd in Germany and his new job heading up a 600 cow dairy unit in Slovakia, starting next month.Get the Irish Farmers Journal delivered straight to your door every week. Purchase an annual Home Delivery subscription today and get our FREE Farm Bucket full of merchandise and gifts worth €129*. Offer ends soon. Click www.ifj.ie/bucket. *New annual customers only. 

This week, we’re at RUAS Winter Fair 2025 in Balmoral where we chat to Aidan Brennan about the world milk market, Peter McCann on the Nutrient Action Programme and David Wright with the latest news on bluetongue. Aidan also caught up with Nick Whelan, CEO of Dale Farm and Colin Kelly, CEO of Lakeland Dairies. Also, Darren Carty chats to Clodagh Bolger from Grassland AGRO about winter management tips.Get the Irish Farmers Journal delivered straight to your door every week. Purchase an annual Home Delivery subscription today and get our FREE Farm Bucket full of merchandise and gifts worth €129*. Offer ends soon. Click www.ifj.ie/bucket. *New annual customers only.

On this week’s Tillage Podcast we have all the latest news from a pilot scheme to be paid for sustainability, CBAM, a report from the Irish Tillage and Land Use Society’s winter conference and a chat with the Ag Sense team. Klara Finkele of Met Éireann and David O’Connor of DCU will chat all things blight forecasting and diagnostics.The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science.