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

• TB proposals;
• Gardaí appeal for information on missing farmer;
• Job losses at Dairygold;
• Schemes latest;
• Restaurants removing beef from menus;
• Growing concern over EU-US trade tensions and tariffs.

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

In this episode of the AgriFocus podcast, Agriland’s Stella Meehan sits down with Carol Lynch, tax partner and head of customs and international trade services with BDO Ireland, to discuss what has become a hotly debated issue – tariffs.

With Ireland exporting 90% of its agri-food produce international exports are hugely important to Ireland’s domestic economy.

In this podcast Carol Lynch discusses exactly what a tariff is and what the impact of the US president’s plan to place tariffs on EU agri-food exports to the US could mean for Ireland and Irish exports.

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: 

• Nitrogen levels in rivers improves;
• ICMSA calls on co-ops to focus on holding base milk price;
• The latest on beef prices;
• 14% of young farmers failed CIS-YF scheme inspections;
• ACRES soil sampling deadline;
• 5,000 apply for TAMS tranche 6;
• MEP says transport rule changes will drive up costs for farmers.

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

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

• The beef wrap with Breifne – including prices, setback to calf exports and Michael O’Leary;
• Foot and mouth confirmed in Hungary;
• EU Commission to audit TB eradication programme;
• New producer standard agreement several months away;
• Dual carriageway project would involve removal of 17 farm buildings;
• Growing shamrock in Kerry

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 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.

Go beyond the headlines with our 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.

In the fourth episode of Agriland’s latest limited podcast series ‘The Dairy Trail’, technical dairy journalist, Hugh Harney takes a trip to Hanbidge’s dairy farm in Kiltegan, Co. Wicklow.

Linda Hanbidge is farming in partnership with her brother Gordon, her mother, Rosemary, and her father, Alan, where they all together seamlessly.

The Hanbidges are aiming to milk 130 montbeliarde cows at peak this year, which will be the most cows they have ever run on the farm.

The brand new limited podcast series ‘The Dairy Trail’ takes listeners inside the yard of dairy farms across the country to hear what is happening on the ground.

The new four-part series will cover everything from calving down cows, managing calves, herd nutrient requirements, getting cows out to grazing, and spreading slurry and fertiliser.

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

• Farmers protest over GAEC 2;
• New TAMS tranche for storm damage;
• Nitrates changes;
• Farmers indicate support for tighter movement controls to curb TB spread;
• Minister Healy-Rae doubles down on live exports;
• Calls for 1c of retail price of a pint to be given to barley growers.

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

In the second episode of Agriland's latest limited podcast series 'The Dairy Trail', technical dairy journalist, Hugh Harney takes a trip to Larry Hannon's dairy farm in Ballitore, Co. Kildare.

Larry Hannon has 235 cows to calve down this spring and has over 70% of the herd calved. The aim is to have 220 cows milking strong at the peak of the lactation.

The focus on the farm is to get the cows out to grass for a few hours every day and to maximise the cow's dry matter intake in the early lactation. 

In the episode, Larry explains how he has been managing his calving season from colostrum feeding to the dietary requirements of the cow.

Larry goes through how he went from having about 20% of his herd calving down in the autumn and filling his winter milk contract, to going to a fully spring-calving herd.

The brand new limited podcast series ‘The Dairy Trail’ takes listeners inside the yard of dairy farms across the country to hear what is happening on the ground.

The new four-part series will cover everything from calving down cows, managing calves, herd nutrient requirements, getting cows out to grazing, and spreading slurry and fertiliser.

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

• Minister will use “every avenue” to support forestry owners;
• Horticulture sector risks ‘contraction’;
• Hedge cutting ban to come into force;
• Latest on schemes;
• UCD calf shed;
• Bird flu latest;
• Galway family describe France as ‘paradise’ for farming.

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

In this episode of the AgriFocus podcast, Agriland’s Stella Meehan sits down with chairperson of Irish Forest Owners (IFO), Derek McCabe to discuss the aftermath of Storm Éowyn and the damage it caused to forestry across the country.

Minister of State with responsibility for forestry, Michael Healy-Rae has said that satellite data shows more than 23,000ha of forestry destroyed as a result of the hurricane force winds in January.

Now forest owners are under pressure to remove and harvest the fallen timber before it begins to rot and decay on the ground, losing value and worth as each day passes.