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Listen: General Election 2024 - the farming issues
Caitríona Morrissey
The Irish Farmers Journal team debates the main issues that will sway the farming and rural vote in the upcoming general election on Friday 29 November.
Listen: General Election 2024 - the farming issues
Youngstock Podcast: PhDs, agronomy and the future of tillage
18 November 2024 Podcast
Youngstock Podcast: PhDs, agronomy and the future of tillage
On this week's Youngstock Podcast, Stephen Robb talks to Robert Beattie, business development manager with Terrachem and Meath tillage farmer, about his role and the future of the sector.
Farming news: electioneering in full-swing and Tillage Day highlights
15 November 2024 Podcast
Farming news: electioneering in full-swing and Tillage Day highlights
This week, we discuss parties' election pledges to farmers, the key issues raised at the Irish Farmers Journal Tillage Day and the reaction to proposed cuts to fertiliser limits.
Tillage Podcast: reporting from Tillage Day '24
On this week's show, we are reporting from Tillage Day 2024, which took place last week.
14 November 2024 News
Young Stock Podcast: covering EU policy for Swedish farmers
On this week’s Young Stock Podcast, James Hanly held an international call with an EU policy journalist from Sweden’s largest agricultural newspaper, Kristina Hansén.
11 November 2024 Podcast
Farming News: farmers' voting intentions, fertiliser cuts and Brazilian beef
This week, the news team discuss a poll of farmers' general election voting intentions, proposed cuts to fertiliser limits and an EU audit of Brazilian beef.
8 November 2024 Podcast
Tillage Podcast: biodiversity, robots and tramlines
This week's Tillage Podcast has an interview with a farmer in England, the grain market report and all of the latest tillage news.
7 November 2024 News
Tillage Podcast: UK visit, prices and potatoes
This week’s show covers potatoes, Tillage Day and blackgrass control in the UK, as well as all the tillage news.
31 October 2024 News
Young Stock Podcast: Irish youth delegates take Rome
On this week's Young Stock Podcast, Sarah McIntosh heads to Rome and catches up with three young people who attended the World Food Forum in the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
28 October 2024 Podcast
Young Stock Podcast: finding a career niche in forestry
This week's guest is forester Lauren Kinsella, who hails from Co Wexford but now lives on a dairy farm in Co Waterford.
21 October 2024 Podcast
Tillage Podcast: grain markets, deforestation rules and planting
On this week’s show, we chat to an economist about world grain markets and hear about new EU deforestation rules.
17 October 2024 News
Tillage podcast: Genetics chat, planting and costs
On this week’s Tillage Podcast we chat to Ty Vaughan, the head of plant biotechnology at Bayer Crop Science.
10 October 2024 Soils