Listen to "Beef grading overhaul and women in farming - Podcast Ep. 150" on Spreaker.

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Listen to "ICSA calls for beef grading overhaul" on Spreaker.

The ICSA’s new beef chairman Edmund Graham told Irish Farmers Journal news correspondent Thomas Hubert that beef grading machines are no longer fit for purpose.

Listen to "Greenmount college dairy open day" on Spreaker.

Ian McCluggage from CAFRE gave an overview of the 200-cow dairy herd at CAFRE Greenmount during an open day held at the college farm near Antrim last week.

Listen to "My farming week: Rose Keating" on Spreaker.

My farming week farmer, Rose Keating, spoke to news correspondent Hannah Quinn-Mulligan about farming with her father and two brothers in Limerick, their fears over fodder shortages and her hopes to start her own pedigree Limousin herd.

Listen to "West Women in Farming" on Spreaker.

Reporting from West Women in Farming’s Farm Diversification conference at GMIT, Mairead Lavery spoke with Dr Maura Farrelly, head of rural sustainability at NUIG; Orla Casey, momentum consulting and Martina Calvey founding member of West Women in Farming.

Listen to "Small food producer gets consumer trends" on Spreaker.

Irish Country Living consumer editor Ciara Leahy met Margaret Hoctor of Kilmullen Farm at the Bord Bia small business open day in Johnstown Castle, Co Wexford.

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