This week in photos: carrots, beets and Dairy day

Our favourite photos from the past week include beet fodder, harvesting carrots, a visit to a turkey farm and the best from Dairy Day in Cork.

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3 December 2023

This week in photos: carrots, beets and Dairy day

Pat Duggan harvests Nairobi main crop carrots near Ballybacon, Co Tipperary, for O' Shea Farms that will supply supermarkets over the coming days. Pat has worked 46 years with O' Shea Farms in Piltown, Co Kilkenny, doing everything from sowing to harvesting and maintaining the machinery. \ Donal O'Leary

Sit back, relax and watch a slideshow of our favourite photos from this week:

This week in photos: beetroot crop save, flooding and mart action

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