In this episode of Agriland’s Farm Finance Podcast limited series Francess McDonnell chats to Bill O’ Keeffe chair of the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) Farm Business Committee about managing costs and outgoings.

The information in the podcast is intended as a general guide only. While every care is taken to ensure accuracy of information provided, Agriland will not accept responsibility for errors or omission howsoever arising. You should seek professional advice in relation to your particular circumstances at the earliest possible time.

In this episode of Agriland’s new Farm Finance Podcast limited series Francess McDonnell chats to Kevin Connolly, financial management specialist with Teagasc about the challenges of growing your family farm.

In this episode of Agriland's new Farm Finance podcast limited series Francess McDonnell sits down with Tom McWey, head of marketing and business development at St. Canice's Credit Union, to chat about why planning is the key to keeping cash flowing on your farm.

The podcast also digs into why it is vital that farm families grasp how important budgeting is to the day to day running of the farm.

Tom explains what farmers need to do to create the budget that works for them, from one week to the next and on a monthly, quarterly and yearly basis.

The information in the podcast is intended as a general guide only. While every care is taken to ensure accuracy of information provided, Agriland will not accept responsibility for errors or omission howsoever arising. You should seek professional advice in relation to your particular circumstances at the earliest possible time.

In the first episode of the Farm Finance podcast, we will take a close look at farm taxation and what exactly farm families need to be aware of and how they could potentially make the current taxation structure, ahead of Budget 2025, work best for them.

We discuss what agricultural reliefs are available including consanguinity (stamp duty) relief which provides for relief from stamp duty on the transfer of agricultural land or farms to certain farmers who are aged under 35.

We also examine what leasing relief is available and explain how a seven year holding requirement applies to land purchased under a contract entered into on or after, 1 January 2024.