Silage season well under way

Stephen Kelso from Tyanee, Co Derry, with the help of his brother and father, races to get in over 60ac of first-cut silage on Saturday. \ Houston Green

Weather takes a turn for baling

Brian Bowers rushes to bale first-cut silage for drystock farmer Shane Bowers in Milkernagh, Co Westmeath. \ Philip Doyle

My Farming Week: Killane, Enniscorthy, Co Wexford

Niall Deacon from Killane, Co Wexford, with his spring beans. Niall is a Bord Bia Quality Assured sheep and tillage farmer, a forester, a graveyard caretaker and a sculptor. \ Patrick Browne

Niall with a pig carved from granite. \ Patrick Browne

Young handlers' event at Virginia Show Centre

Over 80 children attended the event organised by Virginia Show Society, the Irish Farmers Journal, The Irish Shows Association and a number of breed societies last Sunday. \ Shane Murphy

A busy day of clipping, grooming, showing and a popular session on changing trailer wheels from Jim Dockery FRS took place. \ Shane Murphy

Roundup of pictures from around the country

Tanner Brinton, Alberta, Canada, driving a 1954 Ferguson TEF-20 at the Balscadden tractor run, Co Dublin. \ Damien Eagers

Emma Louise Coffey (MC) hosting a discussion with agri-influencers Sophie Bell, Louise Crowley, Hazell Mullins and Alice Hodges about their pathways in farming at the Arrabawn Women in Agri event at Tyrone, Nenagh, Co Tipperary. The event was held as an information and celebration day of female farmers. \ Odhran Ducie

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