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Youngstock Podcast: road less travelled to lecturing for Dr Brian Leonard

Brian Leonard is now a firm student favourite among students in UCD, where his work focuses on farm succession and inheritance, diversification and rural development.

PODCAST 19 January 2026

Youngstock Podcast: road less travelled to lecturing for Dr Brian Leonard

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Young Stock podcast: from selling hens online to selling diet feeders

Young Stock podcast: from selling hens online to selling diet feeders

NEWS 12 January 2026

Young Stock Podcast: forging a career in anaerobic digestion

Young Stock Podcast: forging a career in anaerobic digestion

PODCAST 22 December 2025

Young Stock Podcast: Monaghan man's passion for machines and agri marketing

Young Stock Podcast: Monaghan man's passion for machines and agri marketing

Young Stock Podcast: Monaghan man's passion for machines and agri marketing

NEWS 1 December 2025

Youngstock Podcast: what is the McDonald’s Progressive Young Farmer Programme?

Youngstock Podcast: what is the McDonald’s Progressive Young Farmer Programme?

Youngstock Podcast: what is the McDonald’s Progressive Young Farmer Programme?

PODCAST 27 October 2025

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Youngstock Podcast: Macra milestones with Josephine O’Neill

Youngstock Podcast: Macra milestones with Josephine O’Neill

In this week’s Youngstock podcast, Martin Merrick talks to Macra president Josephine O’Neill on how her first few months as Macra president have been going.

PODCAST 28 April 2025

Youngstock Podcast: rearing whiteheads and breeding Limousins in the Banner

Youngstock Podcast: rearing whiteheads and breeding Limousins in the Banner

This week’s episode features Caroline Enright, a young farmer who took on a land lease to get rearing calves and grow her herd of pedigree Limousins.

NEWS 28 April 2025

In pictures: young farmers compete at all-Ireland young stockperson finals

In pictures: young farmers compete at all-Ireland young stockperson finals

Young handlers from across the country showed their kills in Ballinrobe, demonstrating animal preparation, ring control and presentation.

NEWS 28 April 2025

Young Stock Podcast: sheep, forage crops and the future of farming

Young Stock Podcast: sheep, forage crops and the future of farming

On this week’s Young Stock Podcast, Stephen Robb talks to sheep farmer and DLF business manager Ned Kehoe about all things sheep, college, forage crops and the future of farming.

PODCAST 28 April 2025

Youngstock Podcast: all things TikTok and tractor tuning

Youngstock Podcast: all things TikTok and tractor tuning

This week, Gary Abbott talks to agri mechanic and tractor tuning specialist Ben Dunford, who set out at the age of 22 to build his own business, which has since gone from strength to strength.

NEWS 28 April 2025

Young Stock Podcast: Moffitt keeping all the irons in the fire hot

Young Stock Podcast: Moffitt keeping all the irons in the fire hot

This week, Martin Merrick talks to Ava Moffitt who combines college life with helping run a suckler and sheep enterprise, a pub and the families but livestock mart in Manorhamilton.

PODCAST 28 April 2025

Youngstock Podcast: the president has left the building

Youngstock Podcast: the president has left the building

Elaine Houlihan soon ends her tenure as Macra president, having been the second woman to lead the organisation.

PODCAST 28 April 2025

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'One of our best machinery purchases ever': Jim Mulhall on the Amazone ZA-V

'I’d go far as saying in all the machines and all the years we’ve been buying machinery here, this is probably one of the best purchases we’ve ever made.'

'One of our best machinery purchases ever': Jim Mulhall on the Amazone ZA-V

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