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Podcasts from the Irish Farmers Journal

The Irish Farmers Journal provides you with up-to-date farming news via the Farmers Journal podcast with topical content from our award winning journalists.

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Farm Tech Talk: new-year beef prices, lamb shortage and Kentucky whiskey

New-year beef prices, a shortage of lamb on the horizon and lessons from Kentucky whiskey for the Irish are all on the agenda this week.

3 January 2025 PODCAST

Farming News: 2024’s weanling trade and tractor-driving rules under review

Listen now to get this week's latest news, from mart price trends for weanlings to an upcoming review of the rules of who can drive tractors on the road.

3 January 2025 PODCAST
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Young Stock Podcast: ewe need some patience for sheep

This week, Martin Merrick talks to PhD student Jake Delaney on all things sheep, from his home farm to his studies in Athenry on lameness.

30 December 2024 PODCAST
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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.

23 December 2024 PODCAST

Tillage podcast: looking back on the tillage year

On this week’s podcast we look back at the tillage year gone by and look ahead to positives for 2025.

19 December 2024 NEWS

Tillage Podcast: BYDV, US farming and Mercosur’s impact on tillage

On this week’s Tillage Podcast, Stephen Robb talks to the Irish Farmers Journal’s Pat O’Toole and Conor Kehoe and ITLUS’s Denis Dunne about Mercosur, aphids, the Rosenbohm US scholarship and much more

12 December 2024 NEWS

Listen: understanding the Kerry deal

In this special podcast, we discuss the leading milk price payment, the future of Kerry milk processing and share redemption schemes with Kerry Co-op chair James Tangney and adviser Jim Woulfe.

11 December 2024 NEWS

Listen: is Mercosur a done deal or can it be stopped?

The Irish Farmers Journal team debates whether the Mercosur deal will forge ahead or be derailed - and we talk to Charlie McConalogue and Martin Heydon about politics at home and in Europe.

10 December 2024 NEWS

Young Stock Podcast: working on a 2,500-cow farm in New Zealand

Our guest on this week's Young Stock Podcast is dairy farmer James Higgins from Co Wexford.

9 December 2024 PODCAST