Irish Farmers Journal podcasts

On this week’s Tillage Podcast, we bring you a live recording from the final day of the National Ploughing Championships. Tillage editor Siobhán Walsh was joined by the Head of Agriculture at Bank of Ireland, Eoin Lowry, to discuss a positive future for tillage farming in Ireland, sustainability-linked loans, merchant credit and much more. The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Inside the Farmers Journal: CAP reforms and new nature restoration funding
In this week's podcast, the team takes a look at looming CAP reforms and farmers' opposition to payment changes. New funding for nature restoration has been put on the table, but what will it entail? Fertiliser and milk prices are also on the agenda, and we learn how the Barrow Bus has opened up the south-east.
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Milk prices, grass issues and autumn calving
On this week’s podcast, we’re discussing some of the key takeaways from Ploughing 2026. We chat about the latest announcements from co-ops on August milk price and in The Breakdown; managing issues at grass, like nitrate poisoning and bloat.
This week’s interview is with Rob Colton, a dairy farmer growing maize and forage rye for his winter milk herd.

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This week’s episode was recorded live at the National Ploughing Championships where Sarah McIntosh and Martin Merrick sat down with dating enthusiast Doireann O’Connor and her dad Charley.
“If it’s not blue it won’t do”, according to Doireann O’Connor, the social media star who has over 56,000 followers on Instagram and 46,000 followers on Tiktok.
Live from the Irish Farmers Journal stand at this year’s Ploughing, Doireann and her dad Charley talk about farming, fame and family life in Ballyroan, Co Laois.
Doireann discusses her journey from teaching to singing in a wedding band and why she decided to take a leap of faith into media after travelling around the world,
“I had always been working around media, but I was too afraid to jump into it; I was afraid of failing. When I came home, I said I had nothing to lose, throw everything at it and see what happens. I had a new mindset, I didn’t really care what people thought anymore,” she explains.
When talking about dating in rural Ireland and where to meet people Doireann advises that you just need to put yourself out there.
“People just need to talk to people more in real life,” says Doireann.
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In an exclusive interview with Anna Marie McHugh as the National Ploughing Championships 2026 draws to a close, the assistant managing director of the NPA talks about the success of this years show, the level of preparation that goes into putting on such a huge annual event and growing up surrounded by the Ploughing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.