Our Harvest 2018 photo competition is now entering its third week and the entries are rolling in. This week’s photo is of two-year-old Harry Corrigan inspecting his dad’s straw in Castledemot, Co Kildare. To enter our competition, send your photos to picdesk@farmersjournal.ie or tweet us @IFJ_picturedesk and be sure to use the hashtag #Harvest18. The lucky winner will receive a Farmers Journal hamper of goodies. Best of luck.
Irish Farmers Journal beef specialist Matthew Halpin discusses drought solutions with the large crowd which attended the Teagasc/Irish Farmers Journal BETTER farm beef challenge national open day on Brian Doran’s farm in Carnew, Co Wicklow. \ Roger Jones.
Cllr Michael Fitzgerald, chair of Cashel Tipperary Municipal District; John Daly, chief executive of Tipperary Co-op; ladies winner Violet Ryan, Cordangan, Co Tipperary; and William Ryan, chair of Tipperary Co-op, at the Tipperary Co-op “It’s a long way to Tipperary Festival” All-Ireland national churn-rolling finals. \ O’Gorman Photography
Padraig O’Connor, Teagasc, addresses farmers at a Teagasc/FRS training Animal Health Ireland smarter milking event on the farm of John Lawlor, Ballysheen, Abbeydorney, Co Kerry. \ O’Gorman Photography
Short sleeves at Carnew cattle sales on Saturday. \ Ramona Farrelly
READERS’ PICTURES: Alison Curtin checking cattle with her dad, PJ, happy to see the rain falling. You can send your pictures to picdesk@farmersjournal.ie.