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Watch: this week in photos - farmers get on with fieldwork
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Our top farming photos from the past week include farmers planting potatoes, feeding and moving stock, sowing grass seed, applying lime, spreading urea, some mart action and more.
8 May 2024 Farm machinery
Watch: review - compact handler offering big capacity
Peter Thomas Keaveney got the opportunity to spend some time with the Weidemann T7042, the first model from the manufacturer to have a 7m lift and 4.2t lifting capacity.
28 April 2024 News
Watch: this week in photos - grass, ploughing and bringing in cows
Our top photos from the past week include farmers raking grass, ploughing, baling silage, bringing in cows for milking, sowing spring barley and more.
Anne Devine: Thursday nights are now for visitor watching
Those fancy doorbells with cameras just made life much more entertaining for Ann Devine, writes Colm O’ Regan.
24 April 2024 Damien O'Reilly
German seed precision ticks boxes for busy contractor
Sowing a substantial acreage of corn each year, Peter Thomas Keaveney caught up with Wexford contractor Trevor James to find out why he runs Horsch drills.
24 April 2024 Farm machinery
On review: Malone's new clean cutting combo
Last summer, ahead of the launch of Malone’s new front mower, Peter Thomas Keaveney got the opportunity to put its front and rear mounted mowers combination through its paces.
17 April 2024 Farm machinery
Watch: this week in photos - grass, milking, marts and farm walks
Our top photos from the week include farmers zero grazing a multi-species sward, spreading mushroom compost and milking cows. Our photographers also attended a Teagasc spring clover walk and marts.
14 April 2024 News
On review: Smyth's tri-axle Supercube shows big gains on long draws
With the trend of bigger trailers growing in popularity, Smyth Trailers kindly gave us a demonstration of a 25ft Supercube 50m3 trailer. Peter Thomas Keaveney reports.
3 April 2024 Farm machinery
Farmers star in cinema ad
Appearing before all films shown on screens in Cavan, Longford, Leitrim, Monaghan, Derry, Belfast, Enniskillen and Newry the video will be seen by thousands of cinemagoers across seven cinemas.
27 March 2024 News
Watch: two years without stopping - Keenan’s revamped Mechfibre+ sticks the pace
Keenan launched its updated MechFiber+ range of paddle feeders two years. Midland’s farm Cows.ie bought the first 28m3 machine, and it hasn’t had a day off in two years. Peter Thomas Keaveney reports.
27 March 2024 Farm machinery
Lakeland Dairies farmers hit the big screen
A Lakeland Dairies farming family is set to star on the silver screen in the coming weeks as part of a major new campaign.
25 March 2024 News
Watch: this week in photos - feeding livestock, spreading urea and more
Our top farming photos from the past week include urea spreading in Offaly, calf feeding in Tipperary, mountain ewes grazing in Kerry, a suckler-to-beef system in Westmeath and a mart in Tyrone.
24 March 2024 News