The Tillage Podcast is taking a break over Christmas and we hope all of our listeners also get a break from work.

In case you're missing out, here are some of the most listened-to podcasts, in no particular order, from the year gone by. It’s clear that you like to hear from the fields and from experts from home and abroad.

Thank you to all our listeners, to the editing team and, of course, our guests for taking the time to chat to us over the year.

Baffling buffers, beans and busy farmers

This podcast has results of a readers' survey on land rental, details on new buffer zones in grazeable catch crops and all the details from the malting barley conference.

Dairygold nutritionist Coleman Purcell also chatted to the Irish Farmers Journal at the recent Irish Tillage and Land Use Society's spring seminar.

You can listen to the podcast here.

Walking crops in Co Wexford

On this show, we’re out walking crops in Co Wexford with George Blackburn of Cooney Furlong Grain. We see how crops are coping with late sowing and dry weather.

Catch up here.

Looking at crops in the sunshine in Kilkenny

In this show, we walk crops with James Irish of Brett Brothers in Co Kilkenny. We also chatted to Teagasc's Dermot Forristal ahead of the Crops and Cover Crop Cultivations open day in June.

You can catch up here.

Farmers don’t see tillage area increasing

On this show, we heard from tillage farmers at the Crops and Cover Crop Cultivations open day held by the Irish Farmers Journal and Teagasc. We chatted to Séamus Kearney of the Department of Agriculture at the Irish Seed Trade Association’s open day and heard from Goldcrop’s Donal Fitzgerald.

You can listen here.

Harvest, varieties and minding our soil

On this show, we chatted to president of the Irish Seed Trade Association Tim O’Donovan, Seedtech’s Denis Dunne and to Tim Parton. Tim was a guest speaker at BASE Ireland’s Soil Dependence event on Tuesday 4 July. He has been practicing conservation agriculture for a long time and is a previous soil farmer of the year in the UK.

You can listen to the podcast here.

Talking to farmers with unharvested crops

On this show from October, we talked to farmers in Co Cork whose crops were not harvested this year, as rainfall made it impossible to complete a massive spring cereal harvest as winter cereal area declined. We also heard from speakers from the Irish Drinks Open Forum.

You can click here to listen.

Hear from a top agricultural economist

A world-famous agricultural economist joined us on this show in November. Dan Basse of AgResource Company in Chicago spoke to the Irish Farmers Journal at the Barnett Hall Conference. We also caught up with Rachel Connor of Barnett Hall to talk about carbon footprints of grain and animal feed.

Catch up here.

One beet factory, one driver, two locations…3,500km apart

The last one on the list was actually an Irish Farmers Journal Young Stock Podcast, but with a tillage guest who has harvested crops in Cork and Ukraine. Dave Leahy is an agronomist and works with chemical company BASF.

You can listen here.