Irish Farmers Journal podcasts

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. 

On this week’s podcast the team chats about the super prices for cattle in marts, payment penalties for farm safety breaches and rewetting.

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.

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 22 years of age in the middle of spring 2018, and who has been at the helm of the ship since.I talk to Shaun on what lead him to Tullamore; his home farm, his education after school and his stint of four years working on a large-scale beef, sheep and tillage farm in Tipperary that equipped him with the skills and autonomy to step in to Tullamore Farm and turn it in to the efficient farming system it is today. We also talk about changes to the farming system, with the addition of Easycare ewes to the sheep flock and the switch to 100% with more sexed semen used due to heat detection collars in the suckler herd. Shaun’s two loyal assistants, farm dogs Niko and Bella, also feature, without whom the running of the farm would not be possible, and we also chat about what is to come up in the Tullamore Farm’s new video series, which will feature a monthly video on topical matters and real-life farming issues.

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

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.

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.

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.