*This podcast is sponsored by AXA Farm Insurance.

Louise Hickey and Aisling O’Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week includes:

• Eco-scheme advance payments worth €184m commence
• Liming, soil sampling and farm safety scheme deadlines extended
• Farmyard manure allowed to be kept on farm over closed period
• TD tells minister €11/ac in tillage supports ‘warrants a slap’
• Shortage of suckler-bred cattle
• The cost of finishing winter cattle

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