Irish Farmers Journal podcasts

This week’s podcast sees Wexford resident Meabh Byrne back for a more indebt talk about her career, her masters, and more importantly, being an ambassador for young women to forge a career in agriculture. After a whirlwind year which saw her nominated as a candidate for the Women in Ag ambassador role and fresh from her nomination as a ‘Farm advisor of the Year’ at the national dairy awards, Meabh chats about the positive start she had to farming as a child and how that has developed over the years. She also highlights how dyslexia has not stopped her completing her undergrad and masters, with her job as farm management advisor with Deleval led her to create OneLab as her project proposal, earning her the Agri guild’s Communication prize. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week's special Dairy Day episode of the Inside Dairy Podcast, Daire gives us an update from New Zealand before joining Brendan and Aidan to preview Dairy Day 2026.

Taking place this Saturday, 14 November, at the University of Limerick, the event will cover everything from managing costs and getting started in dairy farming to increasing industry value and the future of Ireland's nitrates derogation.

The podcast will also run through the event layout, exhibits and programme, including session times, topics and speakers to help you plan your day.
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This is Country Living...Clodagh McKenna on embracing a farmland renovation
Life changed for Clodagh McKenna when she met Harry Herbert and moved to Broadspear in Hampshire in England. However, her life is more agricultural than aristocratic as over the last nine years they have renovated an old cottage and farmland into a functioning farm - and not forgetting their small Irish pub on the land. Talk about really embracing country living.
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On this week's Down to Agribusiness, Lorcan and Stephen turn their attention to dairy markets, and why the rally in skim milk powder prices may not be all good news for the outlook for milk prices.

They also look at the widening gap between beef prices in Ireland and Britain which recently hit €1/kg. They also examine what the big international event this week, the US midterm elections could mean for markets and energy prices.

The guest is Alan Gormley, CEO and co-founder of VetPal who talks about how he took advantage of an opportunity he saw in changing EU legislation.

In Agribusiness Unfiltered, the focus shifts to how stubborn inflation is changing the political landscape across the world.
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This week, Aidan chats with the team about the US midterm elections and what it means for Irish farmers, livestock trade, an impressive new calf shed in Waterford and Dairy Day 2026. Martin also chats to John Brennan from Grassland AGRO about cover management.

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