Episodes

  • Milk Price Collapse

    Milk Price Collapse
    Feb 14 2026
    A drop in the price of milk in the international markets threatens to cut average dairy farm incomes by €70,000 this year. Dairy Farmers Aoife Ladd, Liam Walshe and Dan Hanley. Paul Smyth from the ICMSA.
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    10 mins
  • Powdered Milk

    Powdered Milk
    Feb 14 2026
    Only 10% of Irish milk is sold in Ireland. The rest is sold mostly as powdered milk in three quarters of the countries around the world. Suzanne Campbell reports on how that ingredient is used in everything from dry roasted peanuts to shampoo.
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    6 mins
  • Cork Butter Museum

    Cork Butter Museum
    Feb 14 2026
    Regan Hutchins pays a visit to the museum that explores Irish history through a dairy lens.
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    8 mins
  • Irish dairy farmers more exposed than most

    Irish dairy farmers more exposed than most
    Feb 14 2026
    Agri-economist Prof Alan Matthews on why efforts to reduce supply and increase the international price are unlikely to work.
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    7 mins
  • Dairy Gothic

    Dairy Gothic
    Feb 14 2026
    Writer Dennis Ryan reads an excerpt from his memoir about the last day his father milked his cows.
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    4 mins
  • Ireland’s Brainiest Bovine

    Ireland’s Brainiest Bovine
    Feb 14 2026
    Dan Hanley in Kildorrery nominates 1255 from his Holstein Friesian herd who has mastered pulling the hopper cord to feed herself and her herd mates.
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    3 mins
  • Countrywide Full Episode 14/02/2026

    Countrywide Full Episode 14/02/2026
    Feb 14 2026
    Countrywide Full Episode 14/02/2026
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    43 mins
  • Flood Prevention

    Flood Prevention
    Feb 7 2026
    Is the way we are farming partly responsible for flooding, and what changes might decrease damage in the future? Geomorphologist Prof Mary Bourke. Sligo Farmers Eddie Davitt and Joe Leonard. Farming For Water EIP, dairy farmer, Alan Poole. We also spoke to Orla Heffernan, a homeowner in Ballina who suffered a major flooding event in 2015.
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    21 mins