*This podcast is sponsored by AXA Farm Insurance.

Megan O’Brien and Aisling O’Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week include:

- Department to conduct 500 nitrates inspections this year

- ESB compensation rates for farmers and landowners

- National Food and Fodder Security Committee to reconvene and meet next week

- Citizens Assembly on Biodiversity

- Calls for mink eradication

- Leitrim students’ farm safety invention

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