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A great month ahead for agricultural shows

Tommy Moyles July, 2022

After a Covid-induced two year absence, Agricultural shows are returning to the West Cork farming social scene. July sees Dunmanway, Barryroe and Carbery agricultural shows make a welcome return and there’s great credit due to the committees in getting them up and running. These events take a lot of effort […]

Keep in mind that nature rarely appears in straight lines

Tommy Moyles June, 2022

Calving finally came to an end on May 25 with the final cow deciding she’d wait three weeks after the rest. It was a mild inconvenience but it brought the curtain down on what I think was one of the more straightforward calving seasons I can recall. Only four needed […]

Keeping up with the times

Tommy Moyles May, 2022

Sometimes time moves fast in the farming cycle. Only a few weeks ago the call came to try and plant more grain and fodder crops in order to deal with supply chain issues resulting from the war in Ukraine. At this stage, the vast majority of the grain crops are […]

Irish farmers ready to rise to the challenges ahead

Tommy Moyles April, 2022

I was so wrecked tired on the first Saturday night in March that I headed for bed before 9pm. Not long after, word came through to check out the front page of the next day’s Sunday Business Post: The headline stood out boldly ‘All farmers to be told to plant crops […]

Getting into full swing

Tommy Moyles March, 2022

As bad as the weather has been since the arrival of Storms Dudley and Eunice, in an odd way I’m kind of glad. Weather has been unseasonably good since Christmas and I’m happier getting rough weather now rather than in the middle of May. Sometimes in farming you have to […]

Lifelong learning on the farm

Tommy Moyles February, 2022

There’s some good news on farm this month with a clear TB test this time out. There will be another test required 60 days from the latest one and if that is clear then restrictions on the herd will be lifted. The weather has been excellent too and, I hate […]

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