Damien is in Co Waterford to meet a farmer who’s selling off the herd as he has no successor.

Damien is joined by Economist John Daly author of a new report called The Regional Vacancy and Dereliction Analysis produced for the Northern and Western Regional Assembly highlighting the issue of vacancy and property dereliction in the North West.

Damien is in Mayo to find out more about what’s driving beef prices with IFA beef chairman Brendan Golden.

Countrywide’s Hannah Quinn Mulligan visits Kildalton Agricultural College in County Kilkenny to meet some of the young women undertaking agricultural education.

On This Week’s Countrywide; The revival of a local flour mill in Monaghan, Good news for beef prices, Tackling the problem of derelict and vacant buildings in rural towns, We meet young women farmers of the future in Kilkenny And we get an insight into our supermarket shopping trends.

It used to be said that wheat good enough for flour cannot be grown in Ireland, but Suzanne Campbell has been finding out more about flour and about wheat being farmed and milled up in Monaghan.

Damien is joined in studio by his name sake Damian O’Reilly, expert in Retail Management at TU Dublin to discuss Ireland’s current shopping trends .

Damien speaks with Greg Devlin of Silver Hill Duck from Dubai where Greg along with a number of large and artisan food producers are in the Middle East for Gulfood 2022 the place where the world of food and beverage comes to connect.

Ahead of the busiest day of the year for flowers sales, Countrywide reporter Ellen Leonard visits a busy florists in Cork in the lead up to St Valentine’s Day.

Suzanne Campbell reports on the crisis facing many vegetable producers in the food sector which has heightened in recent times.