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Farm Tech Talk: TB proposals on cows, scanning and TAMS slurry storage
Jack Kennedy
This week, we hear of new TB proposals, scanning ewes and update on the new slurry storage grants under TAMS.
Farm Tech Talk: TB proposals on cows, scanning and TAMS slurry storage
Tillage Podcast: US technology system, straw and prices
9 January 2025 News
Tillage Podcast: US technology system, straw and prices
This week’s Tillage Podcast has a guest from the US, looks at straw chopping areas and upcoming events.
Young Stock Podcast: from sheep shearing to machinery sales
7 January 2025 News
Young Stock Podcast: from sheep shearing to machinery sales
On this week's Young Stock Podcast, Gary Abbott spoke with Meath Farm Machinery sales consultant Andrew Bonham about everything from shearing sheep at an international level to tractor sales.
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
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
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