Farming the Land in the Summer Time Volume 2

DVD PAL

When we set out to make another film on
grass and whole crop, we started off
wondering in what Country or direction
we would go and decided to stay in
Ireland, in what turned out to be a
great year for weather and we were able
to feature some of the new machines
that were just out that season.

We visited the Young farm near
Hillsborough in Co. Down, where into
the field came Brian Horner a local
Agri-Contractor from North Co Down.
Brian was driving the very first Krone
1100 self-propelled harvester to come
into Ireland and following him was a
big team of John Deere tractors,
drawing lovely Herron trailers. It took
all they had to keep up with Brian with
his mighty machine.

Further south, we visited Athy in Co
Kilkenny, where we stopped at the farm
of Roger Perry who works with nothing
only New Holland and filmed them at
work at the Silage with a New Harvester
and a new shovel along with many other
new implements as well. They’re a good
team of men and they did a good tidy
job.

At the Country Crest farm near to Lusk
in Co. Dublin, they had just opened
their new Beef Unit and were preparing
to put in the grass in their new state
of the art grass sheds. We watched
them use all the top tractors in their
fleet, along with a J F Trail Harvester
and the latest tedding and rowing
machines.

When the Whole Crop season began, we
moved to a farm near Attical in Co.
Down in the heart of the Mourne
Mountains, where we saw for the first
time in all our travels a Reversible
Fendt 936 tractor belonging to a
Kilkeel based Agri-contractor. We
filmed this extraordinary machine going
backwards up the steep hilly slopes to
lift the Whole Crop and put it in to
the Redrock trailers. David, the owner,
is a keen Fendt collector has seven
Fendt tractors at his disposal.

Last of all, we called with John Dan
O’Hare’s men, who were near their home
in Annaclone putting in the last Whole
Crop for the winter as they cut it in
the dark, to get finished.

• Running Time 60 mins approx
• PAL DVD