Weekly podcast: paying sucklers to exit, Dutch dairy quotas and tillage trials
In this week's podcast, we hear farmers thoughts on the €100m beef fund, learn about dairy farming in the Netherlands, discuss the return of cereal trials to Donegal and chat vintage machinery.
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan travelled to Shannon for a meeting between US President Donald Trump and An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar where potentially devastating dairy tariffs weren't on the menu.
INHFA annual general meeting
Amy Forde was at the Irish Natura and Hill Farmers Association (INHFA) AGM where the €100m Brexit beef fund was the hot topic.
Dutch dairy quotas
Phelim O'Neill speaks to Anton Stockman a Dutch dairy farmer who explains how phosphorus is the new quota for farmers in the Netherlands.
Bird dispersal system
Steiner Henskes explains how his camera and laser-based system protects crops from being attacked by birds. It is also in use at Dublin airport to prevent birds interfering with planes taking off and landing.
Donegal tillage trials
Stephen Robb talks to Donegal cereal farmer Peter Lynch about the importance of the return of cereal variety trials to the northwest.
Young farmer farm walk
Katriona Kinsella speaks to young farmer of the year finalist Maighread Barron and winner of the competition Daniel Hawthorn, at a farm walk on Maighread's dairy farm in Co Waterford.
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In this week's podcast, we hear farmers thoughts on the €100m beef fund, learn about dairy farming in the Netherlands, discuss the return of cereal trials to Donegal and chat vintage machinery.
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Hannah Quinn-Mulligan travelled to Shannon for a meeting between US President Donald Trump and An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar where potentially devastating dairy tariffs weren't on the menu.
INHFA annual general meeting
Amy Forde was at the Irish Natura and Hill Farmers Association (INHFA) AGM where the €100m Brexit beef fund was the hot topic.
Dutch dairy quotas
Phelim O'Neill speaks to Anton Stockman a Dutch dairy farmer who explains how phosphorus is the new quota for farmers in the Netherlands.
Bird dispersal system
Steiner Henskes explains how his camera and laser-based system protects crops from being attacked by birds. It is also in use at Dublin airport to prevent birds interfering with planes taking off and landing.
Donegal tillage trials
Stephen Robb talks to Donegal cereal farmer Peter Lynch about the importance of the return of cereal variety trials to the northwest.
Young farmer farm walk
Katriona Kinsella speaks to young farmer of the year finalist Maighread Barron and winner of the competition Daniel Hawthorn, at a farm walk on Maighread's dairy farm in Co Waterford.
Missed the previous episodes of the podcast? Catch up here!
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