Weekly podcast: beef dairy index, Briege Corkery and renewable energy
In this week's podcast, we hear from Teagasc on the new dairy beef breeding index, Briege Corkery at the Women & Agriculture conference, and EU Commissioner Phil Hogan on the CAP budget and Brexit.
Beef editor Adam Woods attended the Teagasc National beef conference in Tullamore, Co Offaly this week and spoke to professor Donagh Berry about the rollout of the new dairy beef index.
Ahead of addressing the Macra na Feirme national conference on Friday, EU Commissioner for Agriculture Phil Hogan spoke to news correspondent Barry Cassidy about CAP 2020 and the importance of a good Brexit deal.
The Women & Agriculture conference took place in Killarney last Wednesday, and one of the speakers was the Cork GAA star Briege Corkery, a witnner of 18 all-Ireland medals. She told Irish Country Living journalist Anne O’Donoghue about her life as a dairy farmer.
News correspondent Odile Evans was at the national farm safety conference in Carlow on Friday, where she met the chief executive of the Health and Safety Authority, Sharon McGuinness.
News correspondent Thomas Hubert met Bernard Fox, who built an anaerobic digester producing 500kW of electricity and founded the company RAM Gen Ltd on his farm in Co Armagh.
Tommy Moyles spoke with Dr Paul Deane of UCC and Eamonn Ryan TD, Leader of the Green Party following their participation in the climate change and agriculture discussion at the Máire Ní Síthigh Autumn School in Courtmacsherry, west Cork.
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Beef editor Adam Woods attended the Teagasc National beef conference in Tullamore, Co Offaly this week and spoke to professor Donagh Berry about the rollout of the new dairy beef index.
Ahead of addressing the Macra na Feirme national conference on Friday, EU Commissioner for Agriculture Phil Hogan spoke to news correspondent Barry Cassidy about CAP 2020 and the importance of a good Brexit deal.
The Women & Agriculture conference took place in Killarney last Wednesday, and one of the speakers was the Cork GAA star Briege Corkery, a witnner of 18 all-Ireland medals. She told Irish Country Living journalist Anne O’Donoghue about her life as a dairy farmer.
News correspondent Odile Evans was at the national farm safety conference in Carlow on Friday, where she met the chief executive of the Health and Safety Authority, Sharon McGuinness.
News correspondent Thomas Hubert met Bernard Fox, who built an anaerobic digester producing 500kW of electricity and founded the company RAM Gen Ltd on his farm in Co Armagh.
Tommy Moyles spoke with Dr Paul Deane of UCC and Eamonn Ryan TD, Leader of the Green Party following their participation in the climate change and agriculture discussion at the Máire Ní Síthigh Autumn School in Courtmacsherry, west Cork.
Missed the previous episodes of the podcast? Catch up here!
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