Irish Farmers Journal

Irish Farmers Journal
TypeWeekly
FormatTabloid
Owner(s)The Agricultural Trust
EditorJack Kennedy[citation needed]
Founded1948 (1948)
HeadquartersIrish Farm Centre, Bluebell, Dublin 12
CityDublin
Countryireland
ISSN2009-4604
Websitefarmersjournal.ie

The Irish Farmers Journal is a weekly agricultural newspaper (published Thursdays) which provides farming news, specialist advice, market data and country living features to the Irish agricultural industry. As of October 2019, it reportedly had a weekly readership of 263,000.[1] It is the largest selling agricultural publication in both Ireland and the UK,[citation needed] and it had a weekly circulation sale of 62,226 copies at the end of 2018.[2]

It is owned by The Agricultural Trust, which also owns The Irish Field.[3] The Irish Farmers Journal is the only agricultural publication which operates as a legal Trust.[citation needed]

Its ownership structure provides it with the ability to make significant investments in editorial content.[citation needed] An example of this is Tullamore Farm,[4] a model farm designed to test farming practices to improve efficiency.[original research?]

Laois gardening expert Lily Champ has been a regular columnist for Irish Farmers Journal.[5]

  1. ^ "Irish Farmers Journal Grows Print Readership by 8,000 to 263,000". AdWorld.ie. 25 October 2019. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  2. ^ "Circulation". newsbrandsireland.ie. Archived from the original on 17 February 2020. Circulation [..] July To December 2018 [..] Irish Farmers Journal* 62,226 [..] * Source: KPMG
  3. ^ "Irish Times sells 'Irish Field' to 'Farmers Journal' publisher for €2.5m". irishtimes.com. Irish Times. 13 July 2003. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
  4. ^ "Watch and listen: Tullamore Farm – a new venture for the Irish Farmers Journal". www.farmersjournal.ie. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  5. ^ Miller, Steven (24 May 2017). "Laois gardening legend Lilly Champ features in Bloom video". Laois Today. Retrieved 20 November 2022.