16K views · 237 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

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

Potato farming in 1950's Ireland - The Potato pit and sorting machine | Videos of Irish Farming Life

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

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

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