Agriland Podcasts

The Agriland team bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week includes:

• Average farm incomes up across the board in 2025;
• Will EU livestock and protein strategies deliver for farmers?
• Defining 'active farmer' important to CAP deal;
• Proposal to digitise cattle passports;
• New mobile machine solving slurry-related issues.

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 latest episode of Agriland's Groundbreakers series, we hear why a Co. Meath dairy farmer left nursing for dairy farming – and never looked back. 

This time around we hear from Laura Hannon who is dairy farming in partnership with her parents and grandmother near Derrypatrick, Drumree, Co. Meath.

The 'Groundbreakers' series, which is proudly supported by FBD, is highlighting the important role of women in farming in Ireland.

Ireland has officially taken the helm of the EU Council Presidency for the next six months.

But what does that mean in practice, and what can Ireland hope to achieve for Irish farmers?

In this episode of AgriFocus MEP Billy Kelleher chats to Agriland editor Stella Meehan at the European Parliament in Strasbourg about why the Presidency matters, the priorities Ireland is bringing to the table, and what its leadership could mean for Europe.

The Agriland team brings you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week includes:

• How have beef prices fared this week?
• Fuel excise cuts extended;
• Irish EU presidency begins as CAP talks enter key period;
• Farmer Forum holds first meeting;
• New rural housing guidelines.

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 fourth episode of Agriland's Groundbreakers series, we meet two sisters who combine careers in education with farming on the Galway-Roscommon border.

The 'Groundbreakers' series, which is proudly supported by FBD, is highlighting the important role of women in farming in Ireland.

In this episode we meet Miriam and Rachel Hastings who are farming with their parents on the Galway/Roscommon border.

They have a suckler beef farm, as well as sheep, mainly calving and lambing in the spring.

Although both sisters work in education, they life also revolves around the family farm as it has done since they were born. 

They also share their passion for farming on social media through their, 'Keeping up with the Hastings' account.

The Agriland team bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week includes:

• Beef prices on the rise as weekly cattle supply dips;
• How much were the board of Bord Bia paid in 2025?
• Farmer gets nitrates non-compliance notice 3 years after inspection;
• €1.7m project to use advanced slurry management technologies;
• Invasive species among main causes of biodiversity loss.

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 third episode of Agriland’s new Groundbreakers series we hear how a simple request from her father to pick up a bottle of beetroot juice sparked an unexpected journey for one Co. Offaly farmer.

The 'Groundbreakers' series, which is proudly supported by FBD, is highlighting the important role of women in farming in Ireland.

In this episode we meet Anne Marie Feighery, the founder of Feighery’s Farm Beetroot Juice.

Inspired by the health benefits of beetroot, she has developed her own superfood business, bringing new life to the family farm and turning a personal passion into a growing enterprise.

She tells Agriland news journalist, Kathleen O'Sullivan about how she got her business off the ground, the challenges she faces from weather to yields.

But as Anne Marie tells Kathleen she always "loved the idea of setting up something myself" and how it was beetroot that brought her back to the family farm.

Don’t forget to rate, review and follow 'Groundbreakers' and visit Agriland.ie for more. 

The Agriland team bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week includes:

• Bord Bia governance review endorses chair Larry Murrin;
• EU unveils €500m fertiliser support package;
• Beef price steadies after 5 weeks of 10c/kg declines;
• Govt to use EU presidency role to boost CAP funding;
• 'Little overall improvement' in water quality in 2025 – EPA.

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

Ciara Stanley is running a beef enterprise and farm shop alongside her husband Robert in Tullow, Co. Carlow at Coppenagh House Farm.

She is also an entrepreneur, running both a clothing brand and embroidery business.

She spoke to Agriland about showing the realities of farming to consumers, the importance of diversification for her enterprise, and the supports that have helped her along the way.

Groundbreakers, proudly supported by FBD, is highlighting the important role of women in farming.

The Agriland team bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week includes:

• Over 32,000 farmers apply for fuel support scheme;
• Pressure on beef prices continues;
• Bord Bia board to meet to discuss governance review;
• 43% of farms fail local authority water quality inspections;
• Greenway projects costing €2m/km on average.

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