Agriland Podcasts

This podcast is brought to you by AXA Farm Insurance*

Charles O'Donell, Aisling O'Brien and Louise Hickey bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture from Agriland, which this week includes: 

• Parties set out farming priorities ahead of election;
• Who wants to be the next minister for agriculture?;
• The cold snap to give way to a storm;
• Crackdown on illegal hunting;
• Farmer protests over Mercosur deal – also going to include UFU and London demonstration as a follow on;
• Gardaí borrow tractor for road and farm safety training.

Don’t forget to rate, review and follow The Farming Week, Agriland’s weekly review of Irish agriculture, and visit Agriland.ie for more. 

This podcast is brought to you by AXA Farm Insurance*

Charles O'Donell and Aisling O'Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture from Agriland, which this week includes: 

• Proposed €500m sale of Kerry Dairy Ireland;
• Party leaders woo farmer vote ahead of election;
• ICBF aiming to include SCEP weights in evaluations from 2025;
• The outlook for Irish organic beef;
• Customers reopen rural Waterford pub after its closure

Don’t forget to rate, review and follow The Farming Week, Agriland’s weekly review of Irish agriculture, and visit Agriland.ie for more. 

This podcast is brought to you by AXA Farm Insurance*

In this episode, Agriland editor, Stella Meehan sits down with chair of the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) Animal Health Committee, TJ Maher to discuss bovine tuberculosis (TB), it’s impact, cost and future.

Maher explains the main sources and vectors of TB and the steps farmers themselves must take to ensure the disease is eradicated.

They also discuss the cost to the farmer of a TB reactor in the herd and what supports might be available to families as well as the possibility of a TB vaccine for cattle and the badger vaccination programme.

The fortnightly AgriFocus podcast series takes a closer look at some of the key issues that directly impact on farmers, rural communities and the agri-sector.

The fourth and final episode of the Farm Safety Survivor Series brought to you by Agriland, in association with AXA and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM), focuses on mental health.

Please be advised that this episode will focus on mental health and will discuss topics including depression and suicide.

In today’s podcast, Agriland news journalist Rubina Freiberg speaks to Andy Nolan, who comes from a beef farming background in Co. Laois, and Samaritans Ireland executive director, Sarah O’Toole.

In his mid-twenties, Nolan’s mental health issues came to a head. About five years later he decided he wanted to get help and managed to get in control of his mental health. “When I did eventually get help, it was a huge, huge relief”.

Help is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to anyone who is in distress, lonely, struggling to cope or feeling suicidal by calling Samaritans for free day or night on 116 123 or alternatively via email on [email protected]

This podcast is brought to you by AXA Farm Insurance*

Francess McDonnell, Aisling O'Brien, Louise Hickey and Charles O’Donnell bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture from Agriland, which this week includes:

• Arrabawn and Tipperary Co-op merger latest;
• What’s the outlook for October milk prices?
• Plans and pledges from Brussels;
• Questions over who will take over the farm?
• Concerns over farm inspections and TB;
• Latest on schemes and payments

Don’t forget to rate, review and follow The Farming Week, Agriland’s weekly review of Irish agriculture, and visit Agriland.ie for more. 

The third episode of the Farm Safety Survivor Series brought to you by Agriland, in association with AXA and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM), highlights the dangers associated with farm machinery.

In today’s podcast, Agriland news journalist Rubina Freiberg speaks to Aengus Mannion from Co. Sligo who was left seriously injured after he was crushed by a teleporter in 2009, and Teagasc farm machinery and milking machine specialist, Francis Quigley.

In May 2009, Mannion was herding cattle when a teleporter hit him from behind, ramming him into a tree. Having sustained serious leg injuries, the beef farmer underwent over 20 operations over a three-year period in hospital.

This podcast is brought to you by AXA Farm Insurance*

Stella Meehan and Aisling O'Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture from Agriland, which this week includes: 

• Taoiseach Simon Harris speaks at IFA conference;
• ACRES review by minister;
• TAMS, SCEP and schemes;
• Teagasc Sustainability Report;
• ICSA rally against Mercosur;

Don’t forget to rate, review and follow The Farming Week, Agriland’s weekly review of Irish agriculture, and visit Agriland.ie for more. 

This podcast is brought to you by AXA Farm Insurance*

In this episode, the first of Season Two of the AgriFocus series, Agriland editor, Stella Meehan sits down with EY tax partner Alison McHugh to delve into the detail of changes relating to agricultural relief following the publication of Budget 2025.

Alison outlines various scenarios where a land or property owner may need to make decisions urgently before changes are implemented on January 1, 2025.

She explains the relief that is now available from a tax perspective and discusses options for farm transfers and how to take advantage of tax breaks now and into the future.

Go beyond the headlines with our new podcast series – AgriFocus – where we take a closer look at some of the key issues that directly impact on farmers, rural communities and the agri-sector.

This podcast is brought to you by AXA Farm Insurance*

Charles O'Donnell, Aisling O'Brien and Breifne O'Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture from Agriland, which this week includes: 

• Scheme updates;
• Irish cow numbers fall over 78,000 head in past year;
• Beef price latest;
• Government moves agri legislation ahead of election
• Call to suspend proposed changes to Agricultural Relief;
• 450 farmers sign petition opposing splash plate ban;
• FarmPEAT Project takes stock of progress.

Don’t forget to rate, review and follow The Farming Week, Agriland’s weekly review of Irish agriculture, and visit Agriland.ie for more. 

The second episode of the Farm Safety Survivor Series brought to you by Agriland, in association with AXA and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM), focuses on the safe handling of slurry.

In today’s podcast, Agriland news journalist Rubina Freiberg speaks to Mervyn Clendenning from Co. Longford who was overcome by slurry fumes in 2021, and Health and Safety Authority (HSA) inspector, Jason Murray.

Clendenning had just let the cows out of the parlour after milking when his contractor started agitating. After noticing a smell, he went to leave the parlour but collapsed and fell down the stairs, cracking his head off the concrete floor.