Irish Farmers Journal Weekly Podcast

For this week's Young Stock Podcast, careers and education journalist Sarah McIntosh talks to Catherine Smith and William Delaney from Certified Irish Angus. William Delaney is the coordinator responsible for the Certified Irish Angus Schools Competition. He speaks about the hands-on educational programme that is encouraging students across Ireland to learn about where their food comes from. William also talks about his own career pathway and offers advice for anyone considering a master's degree. As a Technical Team Manager at Certified Irish Angus, Catherine Smith speaks about growing up surrounded by pedigree Herefords. She discusses her career pathway to date and the importance of encouraging the next generation to tackle challenges in the sector. We couldn’t let Catherine and William go without doing the quick-fire round. As always, we would love to hear from you, to get in touch with your opinions and feedback on the podcast you can email youngstock@farmersjournal.ie or leave a WhatsApp voice note at 0

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Our news team discusses the sizzling cattle trade at marts and looks at a quality assurance extension for the SCEP suckler scheme. Climate payments for farmers, the IFA hustings, slurry spreading extensions, new derogation maps, a new national park and forestry will all also be on the agenda. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week’s show we chat to a farmer with crops still to cut, run through the Dairygold grain prices, talk about the new tillage payment from the Department of Agriculture and go through some of the farm organisation’s reactions. We also look at field work progress, grain markets and have the weather report. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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This week, Adam Woods explains the €400 price gap between British and Irish beef, Darren Carty tells us what to look out for in the upcoming budget and Aidan Brennan discusses the ongoing nitrates fallout. We’re also joined by Siobhan Walsh who offers a feed and straw round up. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our news team discusses the impact of the €400 gap between Irish and British beef prices. A Dutch calf import ban, Algerian cattle export prospects, fertiliser prices, a mart death, changes at Tirlán, nature restoration and cull cow prices are all also on agenda. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week’s podcast we chat carbon footprints, Irish grain, grain prices and the future of tillage with John Kealy, head of grains at Tirlán, and Pat Ryan, managing director of Liffey Mills. We have details on the IFA calling for exceptional aid.There's an update on harvest, winter planting, we detail the first harvest price which came from Boortmalt and have the grain market report and the weather forecast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week’s show Rachel O’Donovan and Sarah McIntosh were out and about at the National Ploughing Championships chatting to attendees about everything from college courses to finding love at the ploughing. We chat to Noel Bardon, Stephen Robb and Amy Forde who all take part in our special "Ploughing" quick-fire round. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From the Irish Farmers Journal stand at Ploughing 2023, we discuss everything from catch crops to solar panels and nitrates to dairy beef with an extended panel of guests Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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On this week's show we have the results of the Irish Farmers Journal land rental survey. We play you the tillage panel which took place on Tuesday. Robbie Byrne of Precision Nutrition and Conor Kehoe, tillage reporter at the Irish Farmers Journal joined us.We finish off with the grain market and weather reports. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our team was on the ground for the day two of Ploughing 2023, talking to farmers and politicians about organics, vet student places, the weather and much more. We hear from young farmers, female farmers and the winners of the Irish Angus schools competition. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Our team was on the ground for the first day of the Ploughing 2023, talking to farmers and politicians about the nitrates cut, bad weather and beef prices.We hear from some of the first farmers through the gates, Minister Charlie McConalogue, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald, chef Neven Maguire and many more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shanon Kinahan caught up with young dairy farmer Conor Murphy from Co Carlow on this weeks podcast. On this weeks Young Stock Podcast, Shanon Kinahan spoke to Conor Murphy from Tullow, Co Carlow about his family’s switch from sucklers to dairy, life as a young dairy farmer in rural Ireland, owning his own Ardclay Pedigree Shorthorn herd and making the move to New Zealand. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Irish Farmers Journal is running a daily podcast for Ploughing 2023. Today’s introductory episode goes through the expected highlights for this week’s event, travel options, a word from the National Ploughing Association (NPA) and much more. Listen in to get yourself ready for Ratheniska. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Our news team discusses the continuing fallout following a cut to Ireland’s nitrates derogation. We’ll talk about the emerging implications and ongoing farmer protests. ACRES is set to reopen in the middle of October but Minister McConalogue has yet to get the money for it. We go through the detail. IFA elections, pig farmers and TAMS difficulties are all also on agenda. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.