Watch: Farm Tech Talk, the Livestock Show

Mid-January and positive news on beef, milk and lamb prices mean farmers are happy, so there is lots to talk about.

15 January 2021

The Irish Farmers Journal team talks beef, milk and lamb prices.

On this week’s show, Jack Kennedy talks to Adam Woods about ongoing problems with BEAM and an improving beef trade.

We talk to Darren Carty on record lamb prices and sheep scab returning.

And Aidan Brennan profiles some of the nitrate challenges for dairy farmers as calving kicks off down south.

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