Weekly podcast: robotic milking and Varadkar and Hogan on beef support
In this week's podcast, we hear responses from An Taoiseach and the European Commissionner to protesting farmers demanding for a Brexit beef aid package and visit a new set of milking robots.
IFA president Joe Healy confronts An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at the steps of City Hall, Cork and demands a Brexit aid package for beef farmers worth €101m. IFA livestock chair Angus Woods explains why farmers protest outside the cabinet meeting. Hannah Quinn-Mulligan reports.
European Commissioner for Agriculture Phil Hogan discusses prospects for a Brexit beef aid package and the announcement of new subsidised loans for young farmers with Thomas Hubert.
Adam Woods attends the Cavan ICSA AGM on Monday night and speaks to local farmer Norbert Fitzsimons about some views he had on the current beef crisis.
Teagasc director Gerry Boyle and Microsoft Ireland national technology officer Kieran McCorry tell Thomas Hubert about the Airband technology to be deployed across the Ballyhaise farm in Co Cavan.
William Conlon attends the DeLaval open day where five robotic milking machines were recently installed. Farm manager Roger Barkley explains the reason behind the switch.
We meet seven candidates in the upcoming European election. Three are running in the midlands northwest constituency:
Four more candidates are running in the Ireland south constituency:
Prof Jessica Fanzo of Johns Hopkins University in the US, a co-author of the EAT-Lancet report on sustainable diets, discusses its implications for Irish farmers with news correspondent Thomas Hubert.
At the Embrace Farm Resilient Farmers Conference, DCU sociologist Maria Feeney tells Amii McKeever about her research on the issues affecting the health of rural people.
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IFA president Joe Healy confronts An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at the steps of City Hall, Cork and demands a Brexit aid package for beef farmers worth €101m. IFA livestock chair Angus Woods explains why farmers protest outside the cabinet meeting. Hannah Quinn-Mulligan reports.
European Commissioner for Agriculture Phil Hogan discusses prospects for a Brexit beef aid package and the announcement of new subsidised loans for young farmers with Thomas Hubert.
Adam Woods attends the Cavan ICSA AGM on Monday night and speaks to local farmer Norbert Fitzsimons about some views he had on the current beef crisis.
Teagasc director Gerry Boyle and Microsoft Ireland national technology officer Kieran McCorry tell Thomas Hubert about the Airband technology to be deployed across the Ballyhaise farm in Co Cavan.
William Conlon attends the DeLaval open day where five robotic milking machines were recently installed. Farm manager Roger Barkley explains the reason behind the switch.
We meet seven candidates in the upcoming European election. Three are running in the midlands northwest constituency:
Four more candidates are running in the Ireland south constituency:
Prof Jessica Fanzo of Johns Hopkins University in the US, a co-author of the EAT-Lancet report on sustainable diets, discusses its implications for Irish farmers with news correspondent Thomas Hubert.
At the Embrace Farm Resilient Farmers Conference, DCU sociologist Maria Feeney tells Amii McKeever about her research on the issues affecting the health of rural people.
Missed the previous episodes of the podcast? Catch up here!
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