Cha Holmes Contractors of Skibbereen, Cork, collecting grass last year to be used for silage on the beef farm of Ivan Brookes using a Claas Jaguar 870 harvester and John Deere tractors. \ Andy Gibson.

Shane McMahon, Corduff, Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan, baling silage for dairy farmer Seamus Murray. \ Philip Doyle