Irish Farmers Journal podcasts

On the Young Stock Podcast this week, Sarah McIntosh and Daire Cregg discuss CAO points, going to college and offer advice to students navigating their next steps.
They are joined by this week’s guest, Leo Walsh who is preparing to compete in the two-furrow (two-fur) novice class at this year’s National Ploughing Championships in Screggan, Co Offaly on 15-17 September.
Leo discusses how he deals with the pressures of competing, where his ploughing knowledge came from and the final preparations that are currently underway.
As well as the Ploughing, Leo is getting ready to start college this September.
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Description: In part one of our two-part series, we put the spotlight on the women working across Irish agriculture as part of the International Year of the Woman Farmer. On this episode we set the scene, hear from Carina Roseingrave the Irish ambassador for International Year of the Woman Farmer and examine education pathways. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week’s show, Lorcan is joined by News Editor Amy Forde to discuss how Ireland’s food and drink exports performed in the first half of the year. They also have an update on the latest developments in fuel prices, and look across the Atlantic to see how Trump might have just bailed out the Brazilian beef industry . They also remind shareholders in Farmer Business Developments that time is running short of they want to buy or sell some shares at the current trading event.
Inside the sector, Lorcan Roche Kelly speaks to Research Professor Claire DuPont about where EU climate policy is, why Europe is turning to policies around climate resilience, and how the effects from climate change are only set to worsen.
Plus, we have the latest market movements and the week’s key corporate news

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This week, Aidan talks to the panel about changing land use in Ireland. We’ll then hear debates from the panel on the latest surrounding BVD numbers, weanling management, livestock trade, grain harvest and dairy markets. Daire also chats to Clodagh Bolger from Grassland AGRO about fodder budgets.

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On this week’s Tillage Podcast, we look at the Irish Farmers Journal’s estimates survey and see what crops yielded what. Niamh Murphy reports from the Haggard Stores potato variety open day and has interviews with Stephen McCabe, Shay Pheland and Gavin Towers. We talk oat feed, grain trends, the pro Farmer Crop Tour and have the weather report.
You can listen to the podcast here. The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science.
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