Farming
happens
in the room
Twenty-seven dates across the island in 2026. Twelve of them ours. The analysis you read every Thursday, put in a room with the people it concerns.
Dairy Day 2026
The business of farming is still done face to face
The Irish Farmers Journal has reported on Irish agriculture since 1948. Most of that work has been done in print and, more recently, on farmersjournal.ie. But the deals are still done in the mart ring, at the shed door, and over a cup of tea at the end of a long day.
Our events exist for that reason. They take the analysis readers get every Thursday and put it in a room with the people it concerns — dairy farmers weighing a contract, tillage growers costing next spring’s inputs, families working out how land passes to the next generation.
Each one is built the way an article is built: a specific question, the right people to answer it, and no filler. Speakers are chosen because they know the subject, not because they are available. Programmes are set by the same editorial team that writes the paper, and no sponsor buys a slot on a stage.
In 2026 the Journal runs twelve events of its own, from a single-evening briefing on land values to Dairy Day at Punchestown. Our reporters will cover fifteen more. Every date is on the calendar below.
“You get a full day of costings you can hold up against your own figures. There is no other room in the country where that happens.”
Documentary photography, not stock. Warm soil and overcast Irish light — no saturation, no drone overlays.
Two kinds of date in the diary
The events we build ourselves, and the industry dates where the newsroom moves on site. Both are on the calendar; they are not the same thing.
Specialist events
Built by the Journal’s editorial desks around one question, with a programme set in the newsroom. Ticketed, costed and reported afterwards in the paper. Twelve dates in 2026.
Industry events
Dates we don’t own but won’t miss. The newsroom moves on site: live reporting, mart-side commentary, the stand, and the podcast recorded in the field. Fifteen dates in 2026.
Plan your year around it
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Dates marked “venue to be confirmed” are provisional and will be firmed up in the paper. Monthly titles land in the first week of the month.
Everything said in the room, written up in the paper
Every event carries a tag. The coverage stays on the site, and subscribers keep the recordings.
National Ploughing Championships 2025
NEWS · PLOUGHING 2025
Minister commits to SCEP review before the year is out
MACHINERY · PLOUGHING 2025
Every new machine launched in Screggan, priced
Tullamore Farm Open Day 2025
BEEF · TULLAMORE FARM
Gross margin holds at €1,040/ha despite a wet first cut
SHEEP · TULLAMORE FARM
The flock’s move to five-week lambing, two years on
Irish Made Awards 2025
RURAL LIVING · IRISH MADE
The eleven makers who took home an Irish Made Award
Tillage Day 2025
TILLAGE · COSTINGS
Winter wheat at €1,180/ha: where the money actually went
TILLAGE · AGRONOMY
Growers put the case for cutting one fungicide pass
Women & Agriculture 2025
RURAL LIVING · SUCCESSION
‘I farmed it for thirty years before my name went on it’
RURAL LIVING · CONFERENCE
Four practical steps on joint herd numbers, from the panel
Dairy Day 2025
DAIRY · DAIRY DAY
Five costed systems, one conclusion: labour is the constraint, not land
DAIRY · MARKET ANALYSIS
Processors signal contract milk will cover a third of supply by 2028
DAIRY · BREEDING
What the room made of the new economic breeding index weightings
Two ways in: a ticket, or a stand
Book a ticket
Tickets for every Journal event are sold through Eventbrite. Subscribers get first access and a reduced rate. Group rates apply for discussion groups of six or more.
Partner with us
Stands, sponsorship and workshop rooms across the 2026 programme. Editorial control of the platform stays with the newsroom — what we sell is the room, the audience and the reach around it.
Talk to the events team
Speaker suggestions, accessibility requirements, group bookings, press accreditation, or a topic you think deserves a room of its own. One inbox, answered by a person.
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