The silage season is under way in Cork. Dan McCarthy, working for Martin Coakley Agri Contractors, used a Krone Big M 420 to cut a 30-acre field for local dairy farmer Richard Collins in Leap, Co Cork. \ Andy Gibson

Overall supreme champion Beef Shorthorn, shown by David Rea and owned by Leanne Green of Derriaghy Shorthorns, Lisburn, Co Down, with Shorthorn judge Tommy Staunton from Kinvara, Co Galway, at Balmoral Show. \ Peter Houston

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Bidders at Rathfriland Farmers Co-operative Society Cattle sale, Co Down. \ Peter Houston

Dairy farmer Killian O'Connell, Bunmahon, Co Waterford. \ Patrick Browne

Charles Chambers Agri Hire (Dunmanway) harvesting first-cut silage in Dunmanway, Co Cork, for the Beamish family with his John Deere 8600 harvester alongside Aisling Beamish with a John Deere 6130R and Kane trailer. \ David Patterson