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

• Farming community hit by deaths in Mayo and Tipperary;
• New DAFM annual report reveals TB testing payments to vets;
• 4,600 herds gone from SCEP;
• Latest Teagasc fodder survey figures;
• TB lesions in cattle from non-restricted herds;
• Farm plastics collection prices increasing.

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 sponsored by AXA Farm Insurance

In the fourth and final episode of season two of Agriland's limited series 'The Dairy Trail', technical dairy journalist, Hugh Harney takes a trip to dairy farmer Joe Healy's farm in Athboy, Co. Meath.

Joe Healy is milking 97 pedigree Holstein Friesian cows, where the use of American Holstein genetics, embryo transfers and intensive breeding selection is driving his herd towards 700kg of milk solids/cow. 

Joe is hugely enthusiastic about breeding and genetics as he started off milking cows with a strong base of Economic Breeding Index in 2020, and is now driving towards more type, more milk and cows that he enjoys milking twice a day.

Joe keeps his three children involved on the farm as they are proud members of the Irish Holstein Friesian Association young members association and Joe's long term goal is to make the farm more attractive for the next generation. 

Joe also talks about current cow performance, managing rapid grass growth rates and improving his farm business through genetics, infrastructure and lifestyle.

Francess McDonnell, Kathleen O Sullivan, Breifne O'Brien and Maitiú Monaghan bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture from Agriland, which this week includes:

• What the sharp decline in the national herd really means;
• Brighter days ahead - will farm profits rise in 2025?
• Could farmers get higher CAP payments?
• Concerns raised over GAEC 2 appeal criteria
• Planning shake-up - what it could mean for rural Ireland?
• New electricity legislation - what landowners need to know;
• Bald but bold – the little calf winning hearts

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 sponsored by AXA Farm Insurance

In the first podcast instalment of Agriland Media's new series, Farm Safe, Farm Well, we discuss how to keep children safe while on the farm.

Alma Jordan lives in Julianstown in Co. Meath with her husband Mark and son, Eamon where they run a tillage, cattle and horse enterprise.

In response to a spike in farm deaths in 2014, which included five children, Alma wrote a series of story books for children on the theme of farm safety.

She also founded AgriKids, a farm safety educational platform specifically for children, which provides tools, resources and learning aids for teachers to use in the classroom.

Over the past decade, 80,000 children have engaged with the AgriKids programme.

The Farm Safe Farm Well series, produced by Agriland Media in conjunction with AXA Insurance, is funded by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM).

Mike Clohessy is milking 75 black and white cows in Fedamore, Co. Limerick where one Lely A4 robot and a strict breeding routine is paving the way for high solids and good work/life balance.

Mike also has a full-time job off farm as the director of the genetic company, Bullwise CRV and is able to manage dairy farming with his job with the help of the robot. 

Mike talks about his breeding programme and how he wants to breed a cow with good capacity, with an ability to intake large quantities of grass and can convert this to 600kg of milk solids a year. 

The Limerick man discusses the grassland management on the farm through an ABC robotic grazing system, time-off, plans for the future and a potential increase in cow numbers and robots.

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

• Long-awaited Forgotten Farmers scheme;
• Major food recall and listeriosis outbreak;
• NDP funding for TAMS and forest windblow;
• TB reactors continue to climb in latest figures
• DAERA approves voluntary bluetongue vaccine;
• PTO grant opens;
• Who will judge the Diageo Baileys Champion Cow?

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 sponsored by AXA Farm Insurance

In the second episode of season two of Agriland's limited series 'The Dairy Trail', technical dairy journalist, Hugh Harney takes a trip to dairy farmer Sam and Henry Dudley's farm in Co. Tipperary.

Sam Dudley is a third year agricultural science student in UCC, currently doing his work placement in Dovea Genetics and working away on the farm with his father Henry at every chance he gets.

The father and son duo are milking 82 pedigree British Friesian cows, known as the Dekeana herd across a 20ha milking platform with the rest of the land being fragmented into six blocks for silage, heifer rearing, and the pedigree Angus and Shorthorn cattle.

In this podcast, Sam talks about how the pure British Friesian herd are pumping out solids for them, his love for genetics and breeding, his future plans and future investments as well as growth rates and grazing management.

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

• Battle for the next CAP gets underway;
• Marts under pressure to review cattle sale credit;
• Trump threatens 30% tariffs on EU;
• ACRES NPI payment system opens;
• Ragwort growing outside Leinster House.

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 sponsored by AXA Farm Insurance

In the first episode of season two of Agriland's limited series 'The Dairy Trail', technical dairy journalist, Hugh Harney takes a trip to dairy farmer Eugene Lawler's farm in Co. Kildare.

Eugene is farming alongside his son Eoin and his family in Ballitore, Co. Kildare where a simple grazing system is proving very effective for them.

Eugene Lawler was a new entrant into dairy in 2015 after moving from sucklers to dairy cows and has built his herd up to be a well balanced Holstein Friesian with a small bit of Jersey running through them to keep down size.

At this time of the year, Eugene aim to "keep quality grass in front of them [the cows], keep grass in the diet and keep the meal lorry out of the yard."