On an overcast but hot day in west Cork, Jack Sexton harvests 38 acres of winter oats for tillage farmer Martin O'Regan in Castlepark, near Kinsale, using a New Holland CX8.90 combine harvester. The oats are produced for Flahavans, the porridge oats company. Picture: Andy Gibson.

Second-cut silage is under way on Tom Ryan's farm. Pictured are John Stone (combine) and Laura Miller, with Annabelle Stone, collecting in the tractor as work continued throughout the day in Co Laois \ Claire Nash

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Sam and sister Katie McClelland from Doagh, Co Antrim, with Alan and son Ross Warwick from Parkgate, Co Antrim, at Antrim Show. \ Peter Houston

Peter and son Seth from Ahoghill, Co Antrim, competing in the ewe lamb class at the Dorset Horn and Polled Sheep Breeders' Club's 54th Annual Premier Show and Sale at Ballymena Livestock Mart, Co Antrim. \ Peter Houston

Joe Redford from Manchester, England, judging the ewe lamb class at the Dorset Horn & Polled Sheep Breeders' Club's 54th Annual Premier Show and Sale at Ballymena Livestock Mart, Co Antrim. \ Peter Houston

Holstein young handlers competition at Antrim Show. \ Peter Houston

Simmental judge Alan Morrison from Maguiresbridge, Co Fermanagh, at Antrim Show. \ Peter Houston

Raymond Hewitt from Dungiven, Co Derry, and Adam Beck from Kileel, Co Down, at the Dorset Horn & Polled Sheep Breeders' Club's 54th Annual Premier Show and Sale at Ballymena Livestock Mart, Co Antrim. \ Peter Houston

Donal Murphy, Drinagh Co-op, Tim O’Regan Drinagh Co-op, Michael Maxwell, Maxwell Livestock, Elaine Dennehy, Munster Bovine, Keith Mullaney, Skibbereen Mart manager, Anthony Buckley Munster Bovine, Adam Woods, Irish Farmers Journal and David Shiels Drinagh Co op, speakers and organisers of the weanling event in Skibbereen Mart, Co Cork.

Darragh Rice carrying out the sheep preparation in the All-Ireland Junior Young Shepherd/Shepherdess Final at Ossory Show in Co Laois. \ Odhran Ducie

William Murray takes third place in the the All Ireland Junior Young Shepherd/Shepherdess Finals at Ossory Show in Co Laois. \ Odhran Ducie

William Murray (3rd), Oisín Hogan (1st), Alana Steenson (2nd), Kyle Roche (4th), Darragh Rice (6th) and Ryan Melly (5th) in the All-Ireland Junior Young Shepherd/Shepherdess Final at Ossory Show in Co Laois. \ Odhran Ducie