This week, Daire Cregg and Sarah McIntosh speak with Matthew Ryan, a native of Thurles in county Tipperary.

Matthew is a graduate of UCD Dairy Business and currently works as AgTech and Pharma sales manager with the Irish Farmers Journal.

Alongside his job Matthew is heavily involved in the running of the home farm, where they rear calves and keep some thoroughbred horses.

In the interview he shares his journey to get where he is today, some of the upsides and downsides to his role and what his day to day consists of.

He also shares some aspects of his life outside of the job, including a recently developed grá for long-distance running.

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This week, Stephen talks to Adam about the latest Bord Bia and IFA standoff. Aidan outlines the challenges this year’s spring weather is bringing to farms. Martin updates on the calf trade and the upcoming 10-week calf series. Lorcan explains the new VAT changes. We also hear from Niall Crossan, Technical Director at Ecological Building Solutions, about using wool and grass as building materials.

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Inside Dairy comes to you every Wednesday evening from the Irish Farmers Journal Podcast Studio. It is the latest offering from the team that already produce Farm Tech Talks, Young Stock and Vet Pod.

On this week’s show, we talk about grazing management in a wet spring and we have an interview with Catherine McAloon, assistant professor in the school of veterinary medicine at UCD about keeping cows healthy this spring. 

Aidan also chats Limerick based auctioneer Tom Crosse about the land rental market this spring. 

Also Aidan and Daire discuss the possibility of land rent being fixed to milk price, is this happening on the ground? Is it good or bad? 

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Daire, Sarah and Mary are back with some valentines related thoughts, is it a hoax? What do we think of Galentines? Sarah and Daire will tell you about the farm walks that have started back, and would you like a farm themed cameo from Marty?

In the main interview this week, Peter Thomas Keaveney speaks with Michael Redmond junior, who tells us how he balances working full-time with ESB Networks, farming 200 acres of tillage and importing cultivation equipment from Poland.

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Join Daire Cregg, Marty Merrick and Sarah McIntosh every Monday where they give updates on the latest news in the world of ag and farming, alongside some hot topics they want to get off their chest.

Every week we also have one of the Irish Farmers Journal team interview a person from the agricultural world on their life and story.

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Join Ciara Leahy, Paul Mooney, Aidan Brennan, Peter McCann and IFAC's Philip O'Connor as they discuss the comprehensive Irish Farmers Journal Agricultural Land Price Report for 2025.

This is a trailer - to listen to the podcast in full go to www.irishfarmersjournal.ie/my-podcasts

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On this week’s Tillage Podcast we speak to an expert in fungicide resistance. Andreas Mehl from Bayer talks us through how resistance happens, what we can do to stop it and what the trends are.

We cover all the latest news from tillage farmer numbers to malting barley and as always, have the grain market and weather reports. The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science.

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