On this week’s Farm Tech Talk, Stephen Robb is joined by Adam Woods, Aidan Brennan, Martin Merrick and Lorcan Roche Kelly to discuss the key events of the week.

The Bord Bia and IFA standoff continues, with five members of the farming organisation remaining inside the semi-State’s headquarters and little sign of a reprieve coming.

Newly appointed editor of the Irish Farmers Journal Adam Woods brings us the latest.

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Aidan Brennan outlines the challenges this year’s spring weather is bringing to farms and asks whether on-off grazing is part of the solution to dealing with the broken conditions.

Martin Merrick gives us an update on the calf trade and the upcoming 10-week calf series, while agribusiness editor Lorcan Roche Kelly explains the new VAT changes and how you may be losing out when selling cattle to farmers who are selling through the mart.

We also hear from technical director at Ecological Building Solutions Niall Crossan about wool- and grass-based construction materials being imported into Ireland, and whether these materials could be produced here instead.

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