Weekly podcast: ICSA calls for grading overhaul and West Women in Farming
In this week's podcast we hear why the ICSA want to see an overhaul of factory grading, Mairead Lavery meets West Women in Farming plus an aspiring Limousin breeder and CAFRE dairy day.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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