Philip Boucher-Hayes
speaker
466 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 5 Sep
Philip Boucher-Hayes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Marion Vermeulen is one of the past Nuffield scholars on this tour of Irish farms.
Born and raised on an arable farm in the Netherlands, she sees the same issues there, where an agency to match older landowners with younger farmers is already in place.
And would you see, like in Ireland, we have a lot of elderly farmers and you have this problem where young people trying to get into the business mightn't be from farming families.
Conor Hogan from Tipperary works with Chagask and has been researching the issue of generational renewal on Irish farms.
Is there culturally quite a big leap to make in Ireland because of our attachment to land and also to release it to somebody else is a big psychological jump as well?
Nuffield scholar, Conor Hogan, talking to Suzanne Campbell and the duration of the arrangement that they're talking about there, four or five years, should be something that would be very attractive to landowners because it's not, it's anything but permanent arrangement.
Lots of text, 51551 on the lifting stones.
Michal says, I'm reading David's book as it happens at the moment.
It reads as if he's talking to you personally, crammed with all sorts of interesting asides.
Best bit of vivid radio I have heard this year.
Peter in Rathfarnham says, Philip, I often see what I think are lifting stones on my walks around the Dublin mountains, particularly around Tick Nock.
Are there any distinguishing characteristics I should look out for?
Would David be prepared to come with me and have a look?
Send us a picture.
We'll pass it on to David51551 or the WhatsApp would be probably easier for the pictures 0870 32 32 32.
Week after week on Countrywide, we feature farmers who are trying to bypass the middleman and sell their product directly to consumers.
But the big problem that they all have in common is that they either find themselves tied to a single farmer's market stall or strapped into a van doing deliveries when what they really need to do to achieve scale is to be selling in 10 places at the same time.
Step forward, Cavan farmer Ben Tierney, who runs 10 egg vending machines across Cavan, Westmeath and Longford, supplying fresh eggs directly to customers.
Countrywide's Della Kilroy caught up with Ben at his family farm near Bally James Duff.
So Ben, not only are you running your own egg vending business, you also decided last year to write an egg recipe book.
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