At your command

AT YOUR COMMAND: Sheep farmer Martin Feeney calling his sheep dog, Bob, to move sheep from a field overlooking Streedagh strand, Co Sligo. \ Philip Doyle

Martin brings tourists on to the farm for sheep farming and sheepdog demonstrations. This led to his new enterprise, Atlantic Sheepdogs, five years ago and up until COVID-19 bookings had been going from strength to strength. \ Philip Doyle

Cunningham family farm

Geoff and Michael Cunningham take a break from spreading slurry on their farm in Poulacapple West, Springmount, Co Tipperary. The farm is zero-grazed all year round. \ Claire Nash

Geoff walking his cattle in to the milking parlour. \ Claire Nash

Drawing silage at Clonmacnoise

Contractor Anthony Kelly draws silage for suckler farmer Tom Moore at Clonmacnoise, Co Offaly. Tom is hopefull that given the Shannon low water levels, that he may get a cut off the Shannon Callows this year. The Callows are a stretch of flat lands lying between Athlone where the Shanon flows out of Lough Ree, and Portumna, Co Galway, where it enters Lough Derg. \ Philip Doyle

Contractor Anthony Kelly. \ Philip Doyle

Drawing silage at Clonmacnoise, Co Offaly. \ Philip Doyle

Baling and drawing silage in Co Sligo

Suckler farmer Frank Benson in Carricknagrip, Co Sligo drawing and baling silage. Frank spent much of his life in the bar trade in Dublin but retired back to Sligo, buying some land and taking on the family farm. \ Philip Doyle

Suckler farmer Frank Benson. \ Philip Doyle

Triplet calves surprise in Co Laois

Brian Donagher and his daughters Meghan and Rachel with triplet calves that arrived last week. The Dam, a 6 year old cow who last year had 1 calf and the year before had twins surprised Brian with the triplets in Portarlighton, Co Laois \ Claire Nash

Rachel Donagher with one of the triplets. \ Claire Nash

Fit for the factory?

Geraldine Power walks through her cattle while eyeing up which ones are getting fit for the factory on her farm at Kilbeg, Kill, Co Waterford. \ Donal O' Leary

Geraldine Power giving fresh grass to some of her younger cattle on her farm at Kilbeg, Kill, Co Waterford. \ Donal O' Leary

My Farming Week: Joe Martin, Maguiresbridge, Co Fermanagh

Joe Martin runs a contracting business alongside a herd of 40 sucklers in Co Fermanagh. Joe checks his stock at least once a day. \ Houston Green

Joe Martin has been in the middle of agricultural machinery for almost his entire life. \ Houston Green

Joe with 3 of the team who work on his extensive contracting business: Mark Tracey, Luke McDermott and Sean McCaffrey. \ Houston Green

Checking on the herd before topping the field

Beef farmer Richard O'Gorman from Curraghmore, Owning, Piltown, Co Kilkenny checks on his herd of Angus and Hereford cattle before topping the field. There are now 8 generations of 'Richard O'Gorman' who have farmed the land at Curraghmore. \ Philip Doyle