Ciara Leahy, Helen Sharp, and Caitriona Morrissey discuss breeding foals along with the ups and downs that go along with it, while Helen takes a really interesting visit to the vets at Anglesey Lodge Equine Hospital. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 27, 2025•52 min
On this week’s Young Stock Podcast, Peter Thomas Keaveney speaks with Tipperary native Kelum Harrington who left school at 15, and now is running his own sizeable agricultural contracting business. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 24, 2025•27 min
This week, we chat to Adam on beef prices, Darren on lambing and Aidan on positive water quality results. We also chat to Emma Swan from Alltech and Edward Healy from Grassland AGRO. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 21, 2025•1 hr 28 min
This week we discuss the booming beef trade, Macra’s 2025 presidential campaign and the two candidates in the running, cross compliance penalties, grass growth and the Irish wool sector. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 21, 2025•27 min
On this week’s tillage podcast we have an update on fieldwork, report from the fields with David Leahy to look at winter crop agronomy, have the latest tillage news, chat maize and beet and have the grain trends and weather reports. The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 20, 2025•33 min
This week on the show, James Hanly held a video call with American-based video gamer Kermit Ball. Kermit is the community coordinator at GIANTS Software for the game Farming Simulator 25, the world’s largest realistic farming-related videogame. He breaks down how the developers capture all the machinery and buildings in exact detail, some of the games new features and if real-life farmers make the best players. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 17, 2025•25 min
This week, we chat with Adam about the direction of beef prices, Darren shares insights on ACRES, GAEC and rewetting, while Aidan discusses milk solids and spring AI. Aidan also catches up with Bryan Harte, from Tirlán, on grass and feed supply. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 14, 2025•1 hr 16 min
On this week’s podcast the team chats about the super prices for cattle in marts, payment penalties for farm safety breaches and rewetting. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 14, 2025•21 min
On this week’s Tillage Podcast we hear about new herbicide Manhattan and a new fungicide for barley. We chatted to the IFA’s Kieran McEvoy following the National Malting Barley meeting on Monday night. As always, we have the latest tillage news and the grain market and weather reports. The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 13, 2025•25 min
This week’s Youngstock podcast features none other than Tullamore farm manager Shaun Diver, who chats to Martin Merrick about his life before Tullamore and what has changed on the farms since 2018. Compared to dairy farms, there are only a handful of beef or sheep farms throughout Ireland that have a full-time farm manager who is responsible for the day to day running of a mixed enterprise. Cue Shaun Diver, an Inishowen native who took on the responsibility of running the Tullamore Farm at just ...
Mar 10, 2025•31 min
This week, we talk to Adam about the ongoing ICBF dispute, Martin about what is included in a high-spec calf shed, and Aidan about grazing conditions for early March. We also chat with Edward Healy from Grassland AGRO and Cathal Bohane from Alltech Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 07, 2025•1 hr 19 min
TAMS, calf exports, GAEC 2 rules for peatlands and the CAP budget all feature on this week's podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 07, 2025•19 min
We hope you’re listening t the podcast from the tractor, the field or the fine outdoors this week. On this week’s show we chat to Edward Dickinson from Omex, hear from malting barley award winner Liam Day and chat to the IFA’s Alice Doyle. We also look ahead to the IFA’s National Malting Barley meeting and have all the tillage news, grain trends and weather reports. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 06, 2025•30 min
This week Anne O'Donoghue talks to John Martin Carroll from Co Kerry about getting through hard times, giving back to his local community and going back to study as a adult. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 03, 2025•22 min
This week, we chat to Adam on how rewetting plans are going down, to Darren on the upcoming TAMS deadline and Aidan on genotyping lab delays. Aidan also caught up with Tirlán’s Bryan Harte on matching early season grass. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 28, 2025•1 hr 9 min
On this weeks’ show we discuss the state’s push to rewet land, have an update on calf boats and the ongoing fallout around windblow in forestry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 28, 2025•20 min
On this week’s podcast we have some advice for crop management and fertiliser spreading when for when the weather and ground conditions improve. We hear from Dermot Forristal on on farm trials, have all the latest tillage news and the grain trends and weather reports. The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 27, 2025•22 min
This week on the show Rachel Donovan chats to Josephine O’Neill from Bennettsbridge in Co Kilkenny. Josephine is a home economics and Irish teacher who hails from a beef and tillage farm. She is the second candidate in the Macra presidential race to be interviewed on the Youngstock Podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 24, 2025•18 min
This week, Adam provides an update on calving progress at Tullamore Farm, while Darren shares his thoughts on the next CAP. Aidan discusses the weather challenges in Cork, and Adam also speaks with Edward Healy from Grassland AGRO about grass growth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 21, 2025•1 hr 11 min
This week we discuss the major shakeup planned for CAP post 2027, beef prices which are on the rise again this week as well as the latest on the row that continues to rumble on between ICBF and breed societies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 21, 2025•18 min
This week’s Tillage Podcast features an interview with Minister for Agriculture Martin Heydon, the Irish Grain growers Group’s Bobby Miller and Kieran Duggan from Tirlán. We have all the latest on malting barley, grain prices and we look at the tillage pages which feature crop costs and returns and fungicide star ratings. The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 20, 2025•28 min
This week, young agri contractor Conor Murphy from Co Cork chats about the path he took into the family contracting business, gives advice to young people eager to get going with tractor work and explains his thoughts on the future of contracting. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 17, 2025•24 min
This week, we chat to Adam about who is getting €7 per kilo for beef, to Darren on the details around the new rules for peat soils and Aidan on the benefits of early grass. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 14, 2025•58 min
This week we discuss how new land drainage rules could negatively impact BISS payments, we talk about ACRES and the 15,000 farmers who have yet to be paid for actions already carried out and we also hear the latest from ICSA’s AGM which took place on Thursday night – on the night Rachel Donovan spoke to Micheál Brady from Axa on farm insurance and also the newly appointed Minister for Agriculture Martin Heydon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 14, 2025•20 min
On this week’s show we report from the Tirlán grain awards from markets to members and we hear from Teagasc’s Bridget Lynch on cover crop trials. We have all the latest tillage news including tillage payments, cuts to Boortmalt contracts and forward prices. As always, we have the grain market and weather reports. The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 13, 2025•33 min
The Irish Farmers Journal have launched its Land Price Report for 2024. Join host and editor of Irish Country Living Ciara Leahy, Land Report Editor Paul Mooney and Rural Affairs Journalist Jacqueline Hogge as they are joined by Martin Clarke, Commercial Manager at IFAC to discuss its findings. They bring their insights to the price of land across the country and talk about building homes in rural Ireland. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 11, 2025•30 min
This week on the Young Stock Podcast, James Hanly went on the road to St Brendan’s Community School in Birr, Co Offaly to meet their four students who won the Certified Irish Angus beef school’s competition. Now fifth year students, Jack O’Meara, Moya Guinan, Joseph McLoughney and Ben Youngeare now rearing five calves as part of the competition as they plan on selling them to the factory in less than six months. The group also look to the future as they will fly to Brussels in March to make a pr...
Feb 10, 2025•16 min
This week, we chat to Adam about the row between the breeds societies and ICBF, to Darren on the latest ACRES queries and Aidan on new moves by the AI companies. Adam also chats to John O’Loughlin from Grassland AGRO on all matters fertiliser. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 07, 2025•1 hr 21 min
On this week’s show, we speak to Minister of State Michael Healy-Rae, talk about the ICBF Euro-stars indices and discuss the cancellation of a calf boat. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 07, 2025•18 min
On this week’s tillage podcast we hear about flour from peas and beans, carbon stored in tillage soils, differences in establishment systems and we have all the latest tillage news as well as the grain market and weather reports. The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 06, 2025•23 min