 It is the largest selling agricultural publication in both Ireland and the UK with 263,000 weekly readers and it had an audited weekly circulation sale of 62,226 copies at the end of 2019.Since its establishment in 1948, the Irish Farmers Journal has been working with Irish farmers and the agricultural industry, to encourage and sustain a prosperous farm economy in Ireland.It employs 90 people and is owned by The Agricultural Trust which also owns The Irish Field.