Agriland Podcasts - The Farming Week: Proposed €500m sale of Kerry Dairy Ireland, Election kicks into gear, Irish organic beef outlook

The Farming Week: Proposed €500m sale of Kerry Dairy Ireland, Election kicks into gear, Irish organic beef outlook

11/14/24 • 26 min

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

Proposed €500m sale of Kerry Dairy Ireland;
Party leaders woo farmer vote ahead of election;
ICBF aiming to include SCEP weights in evaluations from 2025;
The outlook for Irish organic beef;
Customers reopen rural Waterford pub after its closure

Don’t forget to rate, review and follow The Farming Week, Agriland’s weekly review of Irish agriculture, and visit Agriland.ie for more.

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

Proposed €500m sale of Kerry Dairy Ireland;
Party leaders woo farmer vote ahead of election;
ICBF aiming to include SCEP weights in evaluations from 2025;
The outlook for Irish organic beef;
Customers reopen rural Waterford pub after its closure

Don’t forget to rate, review and follow The Farming Week, Agriland’s weekly review of Irish agriculture, and visit Agriland.ie for more.

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In this episode, Agriland editor, Stella Meehan sits down with chair of the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) Animal Health Committee, TJ Maher to discuss bovine tuberculosis (TB), it’s impact, cost and future.

Maher explains the main sources and vectors of TB and the steps farmers themselves must take to ensure the disease is eradicated.

They also discuss the cost to the farmer of a TB reactor in the herd and what supports might be available to families as well as the possibility of a TB vaccine for cattle and the badger vaccination programme.

The fortnightly AgriFocus podcast series takes a closer look at some of the key issues that directly impact on farmers, rural communities and the agri-sector.

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The Farming Week: Farming priorities ahead of election, From cold snap to a storm, Farmer protests in France, Spain and the U.K

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.

Don’t forget to rate, review and follow The Farming Week, Agriland’s weekly review of Irish agriculture, and visit Agriland.ie for more.