This vintage farming documentary takes a look at the farming practises here in Ireland during the last century. Included in this film is ploughing with donkeys, picking the stones from the ground, sowing the grain by hand, raking the ground with a harrow, cutting the oats with and scythe and then we finish of the video with the oats being threshed. | Videos of Irish Farming Life

16K views · 236 reactions | Here's a video from the Singing Farmer series featuring a collection of different farming practices carried out in Ireland generations ago. Thinking of a gift for a loved one? Our boxsets are stil only £26.99 @ www.farmingvideoshop.com | Videos of Irish Farming Life | Facebook

Documentry of how the people of Ireland lived and farmed the land in the years before the famine.. | Videos of Irish Farming Life

Irish Farmers Journal Machinery & Vintage on Reels

Irish Farmers Journal Machinery & Vintage on Reels

30K views · 86 reactions | WATCH: Farm Tech Talk - In this episode the Irish Farmers Journal livestock specialists cover cattle prices, bulling heifers, tetany in ewes and discuss what’s happening on dairy, suckler and sheep farms all around Ireland. In association with Bord Bia - Irish Food Board, Ornua, FBD Insurance and MSD Animal Health Ireland | Irish Farmers Journal | Facebook

In the 1930s & 40s tractors were still a rare sight on Irish farms. Only the more prosperous farmers could afford two heavy horses to assist with the farm work. Some of the less well off farmers could however afford donkeys which were plentlyful at the time and much cheaper to feed. This pair of male donkeys would have been capable of ploughing an acre of ground in two days, about half of what the two horses could have done. This ground is being prepared for an oat crop so the furrow would only

Tradition Irish Horse and Cart on its way around the farmyard in rural Ireland | Videos of Irish Farming Life