*This podcast is sponsored by AXA Farm Insurance.

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

• Parties set out farming priorities ahead of election;
• Who wants to be the next minister for agriculture?;
• The cold snap to give way to a storm;
• Crackdown on illegal hunting;
• Farmer protests over Mercosur deal – also going to include UFU and London demonstration as a follow on;
• Gardaí borrow tractor for road and farm safety training.

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