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The Farmers Journal team of farmer writes journalists from Ireland, New Zealand, the UK and beyond are dedicated to providing local farming news, comment and opinion across the dairy, beef & tillage sectors.

Farmer Writes: panoramas of wheat in the plains of Meath

Modern combines need perfect crops to work well and when I think back to the weedy and scutchy crops we used to cut, it wouldn’t work today.

FARMER WRITES 18 June 2025
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