This week’s cover: Slurry spreading in Galway.

Our cover this week featured Conor Gannon, spreading slurry for his father, Maurice, an agri contractor, based in Co Galway.

Maurice has several teams working around the clock at the moment to get slurry out before the rain arrives.

Here, Conor is using a 12-metre Mastec dribble bar system for spreading the slurry, powered by a Bower umbilical pump, being pulled by a Valtra T190 tractor.

Contractor Maurice prefers this method of umbilical spreading, as he says it is more gentle on the land and allows him to pump around 30,000 gallons of slurry per hour. Philip Doyle

My farming week: Jimmy Flynn, Taughmaconnell, Co Roscommon.

Jimmy Flynn, a suckler farm in Co Roscommon, was the star of this week’s My Farming Week.

Jimmy’s Limousin cow has just given birth to her third set of twins, and has now had seven calves to date.

The farm has a mix of Limousin, Simmentals and Belgian Blue crosses, all AI’d through Progressive Genetics.

Jimmy hopes to stay in suckler farming many years to come, but says prices badly need to improve, as a lot of suckler farmers are going out of business. Philip Doyle

Teagasc organic dairy farm walk

Teagasc held an organic dairy farm walk in Co Offaly this week.

The walk was held on the farm of Darren and Gerard Grennan at Lismoyney, Clara, Co Offaly, and gave students from Mountbellew college and interested diary farmers a chance to hear how the Grennan’s run their organic dairy farm.

Twelve organic farm walks have been organised around the country by Teagasc and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine to showcase the developements being made in organic farming. Philip Doyle

Michael Leonard in Co Galway.

Michael Leonard is a suckler and sheep farmer in Doon, Kilconnell, Co Galway.

He keeps sucklers from weanling to beef and is currently waiting for the lambing season to begin.

Michael says his ewes are almost ready to lamb. / Philip Doyle

The Keaveney farm in Co Galway.

Eamon Keaveny and his son, Enda, run a dairy farm at Ballymoe, Co Galway.

They have recently upgraded their facilities with a new shed, which houses the cow shed, milking parlour and calving pens.

The cows now have a lot more space and the milking parlour has also increased in size, from a six-unit to 20-unit parlour. Philip Doyle