The Farm Show

Glanbia Farm Show – 2/3/2017

On tonight’s show we heard about the Bord Bia International Marketing Fellowship. It’s nearing the closing date for this years’s programme and  Matt spoke to two local graduates on this year’s programme, Brendan Drea from Carlow and Dara Quane from Kilkenny.

We heard about the latest farm machinery developments on display at the international SIMA conference. Noel Dunne, Machinery Correspondent with the Irish Farmers Monthly outlined some of the highlights.

Matt spoke with Cathal McCormack, Country Manager with Alltech about recent developments in the company.

We also heard about the IFA response to developments regarding Areas Of Natural Conversation and the details of a meeting tomorrow in Carlow. James Murphy had the details.

We’ll also heard a New Zealand perspective from Olin Greenan who spoke with Matt at the recent Grassland conference.

We had some news and diary items and the weekly Mart Report from Kilkenny with George Candler.