IFA candidates, farm safety and credit card bills - Podcast Ep. 54

Members of the IFA are voting to elect their new president and the three candidates took part in the Irish Farmers Journal's live broadcast debate on Friday night. Editor Justin McCarthy asked them about their plan to address shrinking farm incomes, their thoughts on the number of marts in the country and their priority to reform the IFA.As the formation of a new government drags on, reporter Anthony Jordan asked Fine Gael TD for Kildare South Martin Heydon and Lisa Chambers, Finna Fáil TD for Mayo, about their parties' priorities for rural crime and broadband. David Hennelly is an ambulance crew member and he spoke with our news correspondent Odile Evans, who reports on the work of paramedics in farm accidents in this week’s Irish Farmers Journal.Prevention is better than cure, though, and farming students get a solid grounding in farm safety nowadays. Second year ag science students in UCD were doing their farm safety practicals last Friday and Anthony Jordan talked to the experts who prepare them for the dangers of farming life.Meanwhile, markets specialist Phelim O’Neill was in Norway this week. The country is not part of the European Union and the Norwegians have their own way of managing agriculture, as Hildegunn Gjengedal of the Norwegian Farmers Union explains.In Kerry, one of the first locally led agri-environmental schemes is working with farmers to save a precious local species of freshwater mussel. Odile Evans found out more with Karen O’Neill, one of the scientists working on the project – and from a Kerry farm herself.Consumer editor Ciara Leahy explains how credit cards costs add up and why you should shop around in this week’s Irish Country Living. She shares some tips with Mary Phelan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.