Food Security: Bread
Only the tiniest fraction of the flour needed to bake the 50kg of bread we eat a year is grown and milled in Ireland, and the cost of what w...
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Damien O'Reilly and the CountryWide team feature the events, people and happenings that bring colour and life to communities, towns and villages across Ireland. Listen live Saturdays at 8am...
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EU Female Organic Farmer of The Year
Following her victory in the EU's most prestigious organic award we visit Kay O'Sullivan at home on Glynn Organic Farm in North Cork.
Nest Protection Officer Training Programme
Ireland's first certified Nest Protection Officer Training Programme was recently launched by Ministers Martin Heydon and Christopher O'Sull...
Agriland/ICMSA Farmer Survey: Panel
The survey was commissioned by Agriland and the ICMSA, and it shows it isn't only older farmers who want out. One in five farmers in their l...
Agriland/ICMSA Farmer Survey
During the week, a major new survey was published which suggests there will be an exodus of farmers in the next few years. In a comprehensiv...
School Cycle Bus
Approx 5% of Irish children cycle to school every day. One idea trying to change that is the school cycle bus. It's a group of primary schoo...
Natural Horsemanship
Paul Walker is well known in the business for breeding, training and trialling sheepdogs. Now the Chilean-English trainer has turned his han...
Seeds of Inspiration
For a quarter of a century, John McKeon has been collecting seeds from the trees and hedgerows around his home near Castleblayney in Monagha...
Apple Season
If any of you have an apple tree in a park near you, on your farm or garden, you’ll notice how early the apples have appeared - very early....
National Ploughing Championships - Angus calves
This week, five secondary schools, from Donegal to Cork, were presented with an Aberdeen Angus calf to bring home and rear. It's all part of...
National Ploughing Championships - Lamb Shearing
The All-Ireland Lamb Shearing Championships took place at the Ploughing this week when Ireland’s fastest and most skilled sheep shearers - r...
National Ploughing Championships - Young Innovators
At the National Ploughing Championships, young agri start-ups had a chance to pitch for Enterprise Ireland awards, and Suzanne Campbell met...
Minister Christopher O'Sullivan
Ireland sends its plan for restoring nature to Brussels, so how much public money will be allocated to it, and what will it ask? Minister fo...
Sheepshead Walk
A lot of this vision of a more "open access" Ireland might seem unachievable. But there is an example of farmers opening up access to the pu...
South Kerry Greenway
This morning we took a a closer look at the kind of access to the countryside that the state is actually investing in; Greenways. 350 km of...
'The Pathless Land: Finding A Way Across Ireland'
Tim Hannigan is a Cornish born Travel Writer so as somebody who grew up with a right to roam the countryside, the thing about living in Irel...
Donald Trump touches down in Ireland
Ahead of President Trump's arrival to Ireland, RTÉ News Correspondents Brian O'Connell, Colman O'Sullivan and Elizabeth Hearst brought us th...
Can organic farming provide buffer against weather extremes?
Amanda Galvin is running an organic sheep and tillage enterprise not too far from Tullamore. She hasn’t dipped in to any of her winter fodde...
Do we need more drought-resistant pasture to adapt to hot and dry weather?
The creamery Tirlan surveyed 800 of its farmers last week – and over 80% of them said that they had already fed several week’s worth of what...
"If this summer happens again we'll gear up and maybe spend another half a million euro on another irrigation machinery."
This week, Countrywide reporter Della Kilroy visited Hickeys farm to meet father and son Martin and Gerard Hickey and find out how this summ...