Irish Farmers Journal Weekly Podcast

This week's tillage podcast has an interview with a farmer in England, the grain market report and all of the latest tillage news.On this week's podcast Conor Kehoe talks to English farmer David Felce and we have all of the news from the paper, the grain trends report and the weather report.The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science.The Irish Farmers Journal is offering 50% off a digital subscription costing just €59. This is a limited-time offer. Go to farmersjournal.ie/subscribe and use the code IFJ50. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week’s Young Stock Podcast, Peter Thomas Keaveney speaks with Armagh man Neale Spence who has gone from a machinery sales role to establishing his own machinery retail business. With one year under his belt, we find out how the business has progressed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, we talk to Adam on suckler positivity, to Martin on a stonewall that goes on for ever and ever and Aidan talks milk price and what's happening on dairy farms. Adam also talks to Edward Healy from Grassland AGRO on autumn grazing management.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week’s show we look at sweeping changes to UK inheritance tax rules, TB vaccines and hear what the Taoiseach had to say at the IFA’s food and farming conference Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week’s Tillage Podcast we look at how potato farmers are getting through the harvest, preview Tillage Day and have the latest news. Conor Kehoe reports from the UK where he met farmer David Felce who will be on the Lemken stand at this year’s Farm Machinery Show.As always, we have the grain market and weather reports.The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week's Young Stock Podcast, Sarah McIntosh heads to Rome and catches up with three young people who attended the World Food Forum in the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, we’re live at the Women and Agriculture Conference at the Lyrath Hotel in County Kilkenny. We’ll be talking with Janine, Adam, Aidan, and Darren about the true value of real milk, real beef, and wool in supporting the sheep industry Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week the news team discuss a potential ban on urea for farmers, the number of non-derogation farmers who face nitrates penalties as well as meal feeding trends that Teagasc has noticed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Forester Lauren Kinsella is from a suckler background in Wexford, but has relocated to a dairy farm in Co Waterford. She gives us an insight into what a career in forestry is really like, as well as some advice for farmers considering planting. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

 This week, we talk to Adam on the lift in Irish beef price, to Darren on the ACRES clawback and Martin updates us on all things TAMs. Adam also talks to Edward Healy from Grassland AGRO on autumn grazing management. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast, we discuss how thousands of farmers will be hit with a €15m ACRES clawback. We talk about a potential clampdown on the super-rich buying up swathes of land across the country and discuss Met Éireann’s take on grass growth into the future as climate change plays its part. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week’s tillage podcast we report from the Barnett Hall conference. We hear from US economist Dan Basse of AgResource Company on World markets. Rachel Connor, ESG manager with Barnett Hall, talks about new EU Deforestation regulations.As always, we have an update from the fields, the grain market and weather reports.The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

 Gary Abbott chats with Sean Durkin, business development manager at KME Agri on all thing’s machinery, engineering as well as his background and education.  Not directly from a farm, Sean grew up close to his uncle’s farm where he developed a passion for agriculture and machinery from a young age. Upon finishing school, Sean went on to study in Dublin, quickly to find out it wasn’t for him. After some reconsideration Sean switched to MTU and never looked back. Straight after graduating, Sean took on a roll within Kerry Mechanical Engineering (KME) which later led to his current role as business development manager when the company established its Agri division which today specialises in the production of slurry handling equipment.  Sean talks about everything from his background, his day to day role within KME Agri, product innovation and the machinery market at current. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, we spoke with Adam on why the UK and Bord Bia beef price tracker are ahead of Irish prices. Darren shares insights on the potential impact of blue tongue and Aidan updates on how farms facing a winter feed shortage are managing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Adam Woods talks about the widening gap between Irish and UK beef price, Anne O’Donoghue speaks about a piggery in Co Cavan that has been ordered to pay a former employee €13,800 and Declan O’Brien discusses the changes the INHFA have put forward for ACRES. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week’s show features a chat with Ty Vaughan, the head of plant biotechnology at Bayer Crop Science on all things genetics from genetic modification to gene editing.We also have a winter planting update, take a look at costs and returns for winter crops and have the grain prices and weather reports.The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Martin Merrick chats to beef farm manager Stephen Frend on all things suckler, as well as Stephen’s background in farming.Full time beef farm managers roles are like hen’s teeth, with only a handful of larger farms in the country able to justify such. Competition for such roles is stiff, so how did a fresh-faced new grad bag such a role to be the farm manager for one of the country’s most well-known commercial suckler herds?This week’s Youngstock podcast features Stephen Frend, farm manager at Newford Herd, formally based in Athenry and now relocated to Atleague. We talk about Stephen’s background in farming at home in Toomevara, his college days in Waterford IT as well as the recent move for the herd to Roscommon. Stephen also talks about the importance of grass measuring, the genetics of the herd and how the finishing cattle have been performing of late Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, we chat about the sheep trade, grass supplies and ACRES. We also take a look at the widening gap between UK and Ireland in terms of beef price. We also discuss paddock closing and last minute preparations for housing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, we bring you the latest on Budget 2025 and what it will mean for your farm, while EPA analysis of water quality measures and a breakdown of 2023’s deer cull are also covered. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Irish Farmers Journal team analyse the fall out from Budget 2025 and address some unanswered questions.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.