In pictures: Irish Farmers Journal front pages April - June 2014

12 April 2014: Suckler and sheep farmer Justin Linnane of Belharbour, Co Clare, letting out bullocks to grass. Slurry and fertilizer was applied in early March and Justin was happy with grass growth. The Bullocks were to be sold live in the Autumn.

19 April 2014: Garth Peoples from Carrigans, Co Donegal, broadcasts fertilizer ahead of one-pass drilling spring barley. Good ground conditions have allowed similar planting all over the country. Photo Clive Wasson

26 April 2014: Contractor David Kinsella, Gorey, sowing Pioneer 7905 and Justina maize under plastic for Sylvester Bourke at Arklow, Co. Wicklow. The field received 10t of dung and 6,000 gallons of slurry per acre before sowing. A further 2.5 bags of urea was incorporated into the seed bed. Sylvester has pre-sold 40 acres of the crop to a local dairy farmer.

3 May 2014: Pat Regan with his daughter Emily Kate and son Cormac rounding up the hoggets on their Donamon farm, Co. Roscommon. The hoggets will take centre stage when they make the journey to Gorey, Co Wexford, for the Golden Shears World Sheep Shearing and Wool Handling Championships on 17 to 25 May. Photo: Brian Farrell

10 May 2014: Limousin cross cows making the most of spring grass at Borris, Co.Carlow this week. The breeding season has just got underway for suckler herds. Photo: Jack Caffrey

17 May 2014: Thomas Keane and James Geary, Ballyduff, Co. Waterford take a close look at the Stealth Kompactor trailer, winner of the JFC Innovation Awards at Grass and Muck 2014 at Gurteen Agricultural College, Co. Tipperary.

31 May 2014: Sean O'Lionaird, Teergay, Macroom, Co. Cork busy keeping the edges of his pit in order as Donal Buckley, Toames, Kilmichael puts up the silage. Sean cut 40 acres of first cut silage that yielded 14 tonnes fresh weight per acre at six tonnes DM per hectare. Photo: Donal O' Leary

7 June 2014: Ken and Frank Keating tidying off the pit as rain threatens on John Byrne's farm in Redcastle, Co Laois.

14 June 2014: Picking up the last of the silage before the rain on Tom Kelly's dairy farm at Ballymakenny, Drogheda, Co. Louth were Richie Flynn and Mark Hoey. Photo: Jack Caffrey

21 June 2014: An estimated 8,500 farmers attended Beef 2014 at Teagasc Grange, Co Meath, to see the largest display of beef technologies ever staged in Ireland.