Tag: FARMING
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Caffeine, a calculator, a cart load of nostalgia and a catastrophic lack of sleep
That, ladies and gents, is an armchair view of and a survival kit for the rigors of an Irish General Election. He says as he begins keyboarding this piece at 2:28am on a Monday night/Tuesday morning. All a guilty pleasure. In one of life’s great contradictions, you’d have thought the introduction of E-Voting machines would’ve…
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Mick Cummins – A Tribute
Not for the first time and absolutely not the last, a tale at my own expense to begin. My obsession with farming, tractors and all things machinery has always and will always be a part of me. But it hasn’t always been easy on those around me. Simply as one wasn’t disposed to taking no…
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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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Winter’s in without summer ever visiting
When one ends up under the black cloud that is depression at this time of year, that which should be the greatest comfort and means of healing becomes unbearable. Translated to simple terms – where harvest season should be the happiest, most comforting time of the year for me, there’s partly a wish to be…
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Strange Sundays – Part I
If any writers, or producers of any media content, have ever experienced the following please drop a line down in the comments. On Sunday morning I started writing a piece relating to the two semi finals of the World Snooker Championship. Specifically, the contrast between the two. The epic encounter between Luca Brecel and Si…
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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.