The Dairy Edge
Hosted by James Dunne and Stuart Childs · Teagasc
4.8from 55 ratings
- 577
- Episodes
- 133
- Transcribed
- 55
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2018
- First episode
- 7M
- YouTube views
About The Dairy Edge
The Dairy Edge is Teagasc’s dairy podcast for farmers with the latest information, insights and opinion to improve your dairy farm performance. Visit the show page at: https://www.teagasc.ie/animals/dairy/the-dairy-edge-podcast/
- Publisher
- Teagasc
- Category
- government
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 11 Jan 2018
- Latest episode
- 8 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
133 of 577 episodes have a transcript.
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Last Rotation: Setting Up for the Spring
5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
September Evaluation Update & the COW Index with Margaret Kelleher, ICBF
21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Managing cashflow: what dairy farmers need to consider
Inside a recent episode
Last Rotation: Setting Up for the Spring
Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So it's going to be closed in well in excess of three or four months. So to maintain, to ensure that we have good quality feed on that paddock when we're grazing it next year, those paddocks that we're closing now, we need to ensure that we get our residual right now. And if we... we leave grass behind or have a poor utilization or high residuals on paddocks now that's only going to be compounded by such a long close period as well over the winter period so the first thing we have to do is use all the grass that we have there and it and achieve that residual of four four and a half four centimeters of a post-glazen sward right now so we remove any dead material that's there allow light down to the base of the sward and all of that grass that's going to go between now and december it'll reduce the amount of dead material and maintain high quality feed And the second point, and at the moment it's probably not much of an issue, but avoid pugging and poaching. […]
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Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Mike Egan
- Margaret Kelleher
- Patrick Gowing
- John McCabe
- Seamus Kearney
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 6,970,940
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 5 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 50 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 82 / 100
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- Quality
- 88
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 98
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Who hosts The Dairy Edge?
James Dunne and Stuart Childs host the show. Published by Teagasc.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
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