Tag: Boylan Talks Farming
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You don’t need to be a Minister to know Mercosur is dangerous business
To my utmost heartache and no little shame, I haven’t read the Irish Farmers Journal in a ridiculous length of time. In all honesty, the main reasoning for such being the case is out of a feeling and/or realisation that to do so would leave one more upset than is already the case. Yet, as…
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Change of venue for Leinster Final
As if the high drama on the pitch involving Meath teams over the past week or so wasn’t enough, things took another twist prior to the Royal County’s meeting with Louth in tomorrow (Wednesday) evening’s Leinster U-20 FC Final – of course they did – with the revelation that the showdown for the Seamus Flood…
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Happiness is…
After a long five years, back ‘on the horse’ today. Getting rid of uninvited decorations in the grass before #Hay2024 Tell me I can’t do something and I’ll make it my business to prove you wrong, or bust a gut trying!
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I bet your latte or your steak won’t stink!
It will be openly admitted here that yours truly was absolutely attuned to all things farming years before other supposedly ‘more important’ things in life. Now read on… To cut to the chase here, in many ways NOTHING is more important than farming and/or agribusiness. Without them, you’d starve or freeze to death. Those two…
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Harvesting Early Crop Spuds 2023
Maybe not on the same scale as the big operators but proud as punch all the same. Planted Paddy’s Day, lifted and washed today. Three lots still in the ground, along with: Carrots, Peas, Onions, Beetroot, Broccoli, Leaks, Courgettes, Lettuce, Cabbage and Rhubarb.
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SIDELINE CUTS – 28
What you will read hereafter is in the above category solely due to breadth of material likely to be covered. Quite simply because there was a compulsion to write something. But not about anything in particular, if you get me. Unlike, say, last week, when a tumultuous week for Meath GAA meant things more or…
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Sowing Spring Barley Dunboyne, Co Meath
Andrew Clarke of Castlefarm Partnership sowing a crop of Spring Barley alongside Dunboyne Railway line. A Fendt 720 with an Amazone one pass system and He-Va furrow press. Also on duty were a Massey Ferguson 5455 and Redrock bale trailer with 600kg bags of seed.
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Cleaning Up
No matter how far or how long you might think you’re removed from farming, there’s an unwritten, unspoken code among the farming community that when one is in need, the rest rally around. An emotional job getting ready to say goodbye to a little bit more of the boss.
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Exploring off the lead
Elvis has entered the Cowpark! Mr Dog’s first time off the lead while out walking. Starting recall training and checking out Tara Farms newly sown Wheat while he was at it.