Dairy Matters
What is life really like on the farm? Dairy Matters brings you closer to Ireland’s dairy farmers – exploring their love and passion for working the land, the challenges they face to do so and also protect the environment, and the measures they are taking to make Ireland’s dairy industry more sustainable and fit for the future. Dairy Matters is a must listen for anyone interested in learning how modern farming really works. Created and produced by 4TC, Dairy Matters is brought to you by the National Dairy Council.
- Update frequency
- every 33 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 27
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2024
Donning the Green Shirt
Deirdre Ryan joins the pod to talk about how she went from donning the green shirt for Ireland as an Olympic high jumper to performing a similar role on behalf of the nation's food producers as Direc…
Meet The McKennas
Award-winning authors, journalists and broadcasters Sally and John McKenna – the husband and wife team behind the wonderful McKennas' Guides on the best places to eat and stay in Ireland – join the p…
Family Farm
Co Roscommon farmer Miriam Gunn joins the pod to talk about how she balances rearing cows with rearing her own four children, the importance of reducing emissions and protecting the environment, and …
The Science of Farming
Farmer and Phd student Nicole Keohane joins the podcast to talk about her passion for agri science, her work to reduce antimicrobial resistance in the food chain, and helping dairy farming to reduce …
Peak Performance
This special edition of Dairy Matters comes from the Sport Ireland Institute, where Jeremy Probert talks to All-Ireland champions and Everything Starts With Milk ambassadors Grace Walsh and Cian Lync…
Cream of The Crop
We talk to father and son team Michael and Alex McCarthy, Co Limerick dairy farmers and winners of this year's NDC & Kerrygold Quality Milk Awards, about the changes and rewards of dairy farming, its…
Queen of The Land
Jeremy Probert talks to award-winning young Limerick farmer Louise Crowley about treating her cows like family, the joys of spending long summer days cutting sileage, and why more women are embracing…