Irish Farmers Journal podcasts

Listen as the Irish Farmers Journal team recount the highs and lows of the year gone by and predict what might happen in 2026.Join the Irish Farmers Journal team as they discuss the highlights and low points of 2025 for farmers in the beef, dairy, sheep and tillage sectors.Adam Woods talks beef and weanling prices, as well as the Mercosur deal and Brazilian beef.Darren Carty assesses how sheep farmers will begin the new year after a major drop in sheep production.Aidan Brennan addresses the harsh milk price cuts and the mergers that are changing the Irish dairy co-op scene. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Stephen Robb talks to Ide Hennessy, Environmental Compliance Officer with Nephin Renewable Gas, about her journey forging a career in Ireland’s emerging anaerobic digestion sector.This Christmas, we want to showcase life on farms right across Ireland and we’d love you to be part of it.Share your favourite festive pictures and you could see them featured in the Irish Farmers Journal online, in our app and across our social media channels.Go to www.ifj.ie/christmasonyourfarm and show us Christmas on your farm. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Martin chats about the new building exemptions, Darren about bluetongue vaccinations getting the green light an d Daire chats milk prices. Adam joins us live from the Mercusor demonstrations in Brussels. Farm Tech Talk is growing and we want you to be a part of its future. Go to www.ifj.ie/fttsurvey to fill out our survey and you could win a farm bucket full of Irish Farmers Journal merchandise.Join the Farm Tech Talk community — your feedback keeps us growing. This Christmas, we want to showcase life on farms right across Ireland and we’d love you to be part of it.Share your favourite festive pictures and you could see them featured in the Irish Farmers Journal online, in our app and across our social media channels.Go to www.ifj.ie/christmasonyourfarm and show us Christmas on your farm. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We have a special Tillage Podcast ahead of the Christmas break. Pat O’Toole and Stephen Robb join Siobhán Walsh to chat about the tough year it has been in tillage and we find some positives along the way. From weather to grain price, malting barley to blackgrass we have the top tillage topics from the year.The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science.This Christmas, we want to showcase life on farms right across Ireland and we’d love you to be part of it.Share your favourite festive pictures and you could see them featured in the Irish Farmers Journal online, in our app and across our social media channels.Go to www.ifj.ie/christmasonyourfarm and show us Christmas on your farm. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Inside the Farmers Journal: who’s taking the John Deere to Brussels?  Mercosur is the main topic on the agenda for the last episode of </i>Inside the Farmers Journal</i> this year.Political correspondent Pat O’Toole joins us to discuss where countries across the EU currently stand on the trade deal, as well as where politicians support at home lies. We hear from Tom Gorman, as he prepares to head off with his dad, IFA president Francie Gorman, to a protest in Brussels opposing the deal.And we round off the year, with a look back at the main events that shaped farming in 2025 and what might be on the horizon next year.Farm Tech Talk is growing and we want you to be a part of its future. Go to www.ifj.ie/fttsurvey to fill out our survey and you could win a farm bucket full of Irish Farmers Journal merchandise.Join the Farm Tech Talk community — your feedback keeps us growing.  This Christmas, we want to showcase life on farms right across Ireland and we’d love you to be part of it.Share your favourite festive pictures and you could see them featured in the Irish Farmers Journal online, in our app and across our social media channels.Go to www.ifj.ie/christmasonyourfarm and show us Christmas on your farm. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the third episode of the new podcast aimed at secondary school students, experts share key advice on how students can succeed with their Individual Investigative StudyThe latest instalment of our new podcast series, Growing Minds, which was created to support secondary school students and those pursuing agricultural science, is now live.In episode two part two of Growing Minds, Roisin Byrne, who is the ag science coordinator at Agri Aware, sits down with Iain Wallace, the education officer at IASTA and ag science teacher at Wesley College.  Sitting down to record the podcast, they have an in-depth discussion on the Individual Investigative Study (IIS) and explore the key takeaways for students to keep an eye out for. The IIS forms a large part of the ag science curriculum, as it accounts for 25% of the total Leaving Certificate subject results. Roisin and Iain talk about defining the investigation theme, structuring your study, the best approaches for each section, understanding word count and marking criteria and the importance of proper referencing Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join Sarah McIntosh and Daire Cregg as they catch us up on their stories in the farmers journal this week, before Peter Thomas Keaveney interview Janik Marek, a 22 year-old Austrian native who tells us about his home dairy farm in Austria, his current role on a 1,000 cow herd in Germany and his new job heading up a 600 cow dairy unit in Slovakia, starting next month.Get the Irish Farmers Journal delivered straight to your door every week. Purchase an annual Home Delivery subscription today and get our FREE Farm Bucket full of merchandise and gifts worth €129*. Offer ends soon. Click www.ifj.ie/bucket. *New annual customers only.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, we’re at RUAS Winter Fair 2025 in Balmoral where we chat to Aidan Brennan about the world milk market, Peter McCann on the Nutrient Action Programme and David Wright with the latest news on bluetongue. Aidan also caught up with Nick Whelan, CEO of Dale Farm and Colin Kelly, CEO of Lakeland Dairies. Also, Darren Carty chats to Clodagh Bolger from Grassland AGRO about winter management tips.Get the Irish Farmers Journal delivered straight to your door every week. Purchase an annual Home Delivery subscription today and get our FREE Farm Bucket full of merchandise and gifts worth €129*. Offer ends soon. Click www.ifj.ie/bucket. *New annual customers only. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week’s Tillage Podcast we have all the latest news from a pilot scheme to be paid for sustainability, CBAM, a report from the Irish Tillage and Land Use Society’s winter conference and a chat with the Ag Sense team. Klara Finkele of Met Éireann and David O’Connor of DCU will chat all things blight forecasting and diagnostics.The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Inside the Farmers Journal: Irish butter, the Kardashians and new forestry schemeOn this week’s show, find out why Kerry Dairy Ireland chartered a plane to bring butter to the US, the link between Kerry and the Kardashians and a new scheme for farmers with windblown trees. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on the Young Stock Podcast our guest is Macra Munster vice-president Willie Clancy. A beef farmer in organic conversion from Tipperary, Willie discusses moving to this system and making it work for his farm. The Munster vice-president also reveals why he decided to join Macra in the first place. Spoiler: it involves getting away from Coronation Street!Get the Irish Farmers Journal delivered straight to your door every week. Purchase an annual Home Delivery subscription today and get our FREE Farm Bucket full of merchandise and gifts worth €129*. Offer ends soon. Click www.ifj.ie/bucket. *New annual customers only. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Adam woods talks about the Brazilian beef recall, Darren chats bluetongue and Aidan discusses derogation and dairy markets.Get the Irish Farmers Journal delivered straight to your door every week. Purchase an annual Home Delivery subscription today and get our FREE Farm Bucket full of merchandise and gifts worth €129*. Offer ends soon. Click www.ifj.ie/bucket. *New annual customers only. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week’s Tillage Podcast we detail through the Teagasc Review and Outlook report which delivers bad news on tillage incomes, but does show a slight increase in margin. We chat to an Iowa farmer on crops, cattle and the Pro Farmer Crop Tour. We also have news on protein and straw payments, news on pea breeding, award winners and the grain trend and weather reports. The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

 Inside the Farmers Journal – Bluetongue hits the Island of Ireland and Brazilian beef recall  On this week’s jampacked show, we discuss the implications of confirmed bluetongue cases in Northern Ireland, the recall of Brazilian been in the EU, as well as farm income forecasts for the year ahead and much more. Presented by Anne O'Donoghue, guest contributors Noel Bardon & Ciara Leahy. Produced by Kate Brennan Harding Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Just over a month ago, a team from the Irish Farmers Journal in conjunction with the Irish Farmers Association—travelled across several Brazilian states to investigate the realities of Brazilian beef production. Deputy Editor Adam Woods, Senior Policy Executive Tomas Burke, and IFJ Head of Photography Philip Doyle set out with a clear mission: to take an unfiltered look at Brazilian beef farming systems, traceability standards, and antibiotic regulations—and to compare what they found with the strict protocols followed by European farmers. What they uncovered has serious implications that may echo throughout global agriculture and public health for years to come. Join Caitriona Morrissey, Adam Woods, Tomas Burke, Philip Doyle and more as we dive into the evidence, the concerns, and the global stakes behind antibiotic use in Brazilian beef production. Produced by Kate Brennan Harding for The Irish Farmers Journal  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the second episode of the new podcast aimed at secondary school students, experts share key advice on how students can succeed with their Individual Investigative StudyThe latest instalment of our new podcast series, Growing Minds, which was created to support secondary school students and those pursuing agricultural science, is now live.In episode two, part one of Growing Minds, Roisin Byrne, who is the ag science coordinator at Agri Aware, sits down with Iain Wallace, the education officer at IASTA and ag science teacher at Wesley College.  Sitting down to record the podcast, they have an in-depth discussion on the Individual Investigative Study (IIS) and explore the key takeaways for students to keep an eye out for. The IIS forms a large part of the ag science curriculum, as it accounts for 25% of the total Leaving Certificate subject results. Roisin and Iain talk about defining the investigation theme, structuring your study, the best approaches for each section, understanding word count and marking criteria and the importance of proper referencing Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week’s show, Gary Abbott talks to young entrepreneur Daragh McHugh, owner and founder of AgriMel Marketing and Basque Machinery Sales. On the show Daragh talks about school, and his decision to go working with a machinery dealer over a plumbing apprenticeship. Having later found himself in a marketing role, Daragh soon spotted an opportunity to establish his own agri marketing business. Now a year and a half on and 23 years of age, he discusses the journey so far, as well as the challenges and his future plans.Get the Irish Farmers Journal delivered straight to your door every week. Purchase an annual Home Delivery subscription today and get our FREE Farm Bucket full of merchandise and gifts worth €129*. Offer ends soon. Click www.ifj.ie/bucket. *New annual customers only. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

 This week, Adam chats about the lack of Brazilian cattle tags, Darren talks BVD and Daire discusses milk price cuts. Darren also chats to John Brennan from Grassland AGRO about pre-calving mineral supplementation.The Irish Farmers Journal BLACK FRIDAY SALE is now on. Get an incredible 30% off our Digital subscriptions for a limited time only*.This offer ends midnight on Monday (December 1st). Click www.ifj.ie/subscribe and use the discount code BLACKFRIDAY30 at the checkout.Get the Irish Farmers Journal delivered straight to your door every week. Purchase an annual Home Delivery subscription today and get our FREE Farm Bucket full of merchandise and gifts worth €129*. Offer ends soon. Click www.ifj.ie/bucket. *New annual customers only. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week’s show features an interview with Alison Jack of New Leaf, a company focused on biological plant solutions. We have all the latest tillage news, grain prices and weather reports. The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, the team discuss another outbreak of bird flu, farming being unfairly blamed for water pollution, hear from a farmer in West Cork whose cattle were stolen Minister for Agriculture Martin Heydon comments on the Brazilian Beef expose conducted by the Irish Farmers Journal Get the Irish Farmers Journal delivered straight to your door every week. Purchase an annual Home Delivery subscription today and get our FREE Farm Bucket full of merchandise and gifts worth €129*. Offer ends soon. Click www.ifj.ie/bucket. *New annual customers only.The Irish Farmers Journal BLACK FRIDAY SALE is now on. Get an incredible 30% off our Digital subscriptions for a limited time only*.This offer ends midnight on Monday (December 1st). Click www.ifj.ie/subscribe and use the discount code BLACKFRIDAY30 at the checkout.*New annual customers only. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.