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This week, the Farmers Journal has obtained the terms and conditions of the Beef Data and Genomics Programme: listen in as news editor Pat O'Keeffe gets the details from editor Justin McCarthy and livestock specialist Darren Carty.

Pat interviews Longford farmer Mike Magan, chairman of Animal Health Ireland; and Thomas Hubert talks to former Farmers Journal editor Matt Dempsey, who edited the 60th anniversary book "IFA: The Path to Power".

Finally, Irish Country Living's Ciara Leahy asks colleague Roisín Healy about her visit to the Co. Wexford farm that has just launched its own home-grown blackcurrant cordial.

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Missed the previous episodes of the podcast? Catch up below!

Episode 4 - 22 April 2015: Farm safety and crop growth update

Episode 3 - 15 April 2015: GLAS, Ornua results and social welfare entitlements

Episode 2 - 8 April 2015: Markets for Irish beef

Episode 1 - 31 March 2015: End of milk quotas

Irish Farmers Journal weekly podcast: new beef scheme and blackcurrant rebirth

Listen to our livestock specialists go throuh the details of the Beef Data and Genomics Scheme and hear from Animal Health Ireland as well as Matt Dempsey, who edited the IFA's 60th anniversary book.