Farming on the Easter break

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Micheal and Eamon O’Neill are on mid-term from school and helping out on their father TJ O’Neill’s farm in Coppanagh, Co Kilkenny, by moving their suckler herd to fresh grass. \ Phillip Doyle

Silage season in Cork

Keith Burns and John Power Junior of Power Agri Plant, Mount Uniake, Co Cork, pick up Westerwold silage on the farm of Con Coughlan, Ladysbridge, Co Cork. \ Donal O’Leary

Suckler farming on the southwest coast

On the edge: Barry Clifford, Castlecove, Co Kerry, farms on the edge of the Atlantic on the Iveragh Peninsula. \ Valerie O’Sullivan

Tackling tetany

Beef farmer Eamon Lyons supplementing the diet of his mixed herd of Simmental, Angus, Salers, Limousin and Charolais cattle at Carrigeen East, Craughwell, Co Galway. \ David Ruffles