Tag: Irish Farmer’s Journal
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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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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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Let’s give this chicken a spin!
https://youtube.com/shorts/kChvucjkFB0?feature=share A combined effort between myself and the good lady at Rotisserie Chicken. Dry seasoned with salt, pepper and mixed herbs and into the oven at 190© for 45 mins.
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Watch “Digging Early Crop Spuds – on wheels!” on YouTube
My first attempt at using a GoPro – well, a cheaper version of same, to be truthful – so please be kind! Here, you get a steering-eye view as I dig and wash two thirds of our Early Crop spuds. Sown on March 13th, harvested on July 14th, yielding 56 potatoes in total, with the…
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The unseen cost of Putin’s war relights my fire
What way do you view war? I don’t mean as in is it good or bad. Rather, what catches your attention first and/or holds onto it the longest. Not being old enough to remember the ins and outs of the original Gulf War in 1991, it was obvious oil was at the heart thereof. Aside…
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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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Cutting Spring Barley
Andrew Clarke cutting a good crop a Spring Barley in Dunboyne, Co Meath with a new (to them) Claas Lexion 760 TerraTrek combine. His dad, Pat, was on drawing duties with their Massey Ferguson 7618 and a pair of Redrock grain trailers. A huge word of thanks to the lads, as always for the heads…