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Ep 1151: Young Stock Podcast: milking 1,200 cows and spending Christmas in Australia
On this week’s Young Stock Podcast, Sarah McIntosh speaks to primary school teacher Katie Helen who has just completed her regional work on a 1,200-cow enterprise in Australia.Like many other 26-year-olds across Ireland, Katie Helen is spending this Christmas Down Under with her friends in Melbourne.Hailing from a dairy farm in Foulkesmill’s Co-Wexford, Katie moved to Australia earlier this year to see what life was like on the other side of the world. She recently finished working on the Cheelonga Farm owned by the Graham Family, where they milk 1,200 cows consisting of Brown Swiss, Holsteins, Jerseys and crossbreeds, managing 2,000 acres across three different farms. Katie discusses the challenges and opportunities of moving to Australia and offers advice for anyone thinking of making the move. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ep 1150: Farm Tech Talk Ep 246 - Mercosur deal, sheep prices, body condition scores, Kerry deal and importance of soil sampling.
This week, we chat about the Mercosur deal with Adam, sheep prices and body condition scores with Darren and the Kerry deal with Aidan. We also talk to Grassland AGRO’s Clodagh Bolger about the importance of soil sampling. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ep 1149: Farming News: New TB funding boost for vets, Kerry deal and ICSA presidential election
This week on the podcast Adam Woods discusses the potential TB funding boost of €2m for vets, Lorcan Roche-Kelly brings us up to speed on the Kerry vote, Noel Bardon discuses the ICSA election which saw Seán McNamara elected for a second term and Anne O’Donoghue has the latest on the new walk on walk off calf boat to be docked in Waterford. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ep 1148: The Tillage Podcast: looking back on the tillage year
On this week’s podcast Pat O’Toole joins us to take a look back on the tillage year. The team look at the highs and the lows from spring cropping and delayed planting to incomes. They also talk about the saga that was the straw scheme. As always we have the grain price and weather reports.The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ep 1147: Young Stock Podcast - ‘Irish farmers like to talk just like Kansas farmers’
Madeline Drake from Kansas State University joins us on the Young Stock Podcast this week to talk farming, agricultural communications and Donald Trump. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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