Tag: Harvesting
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Workin’ on the Railroad – Harvest 2022
In this video, yours truly makes it 37 consecutive years with at least one day out Harvest Spotting. Here, the Castlefarm Partnership tackle a massive crop of wheat adjacent to Dunboyne Railway Station. Three generations of the Clarke family hard at it with a Claas Lexion 760TT, a Fendt 720, a Fendt 718, a Massey…
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Spring Barley Milestown, Dunboyne, Co Meath
Larry Hogarty’s team cutting Spring Barley for Tommy Leonard of Mount Thunder, Confey, Co Kildare. Seamus Maguire in the New Holland CX 8030, Paul Hughes with a John Deere 6175M and two Broughan trailers drawing to Tara Farms Ltd. Filmed by Susan M. Kiernan. A huge word of thanks to all concerned.
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Making tracks – Harvest 2021 Is Away!
Forget about Christmas, for me days like today are the magical ones in the year – Harvest 2021 is up and running. Out with the Clarke family once again as they tackle 20+ acres of Winter Barley with their new Claas Lexion 670 TerraTrac. On drawing duties were a Deutz Fahr 6210 and a John…
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Cabbage Packed And Crops Wrapped Up
And so we arrive at the end of the first season working with vegetable crops. I say season rather than year as it was, after all, midsummer before we got going. From then, there’s been ups, downs, a lot of learning and an even greater amount of therapy.