▌ Modern Farming Boxset Vol. 8 USB & DVD
Modern Farming Vol. 8 is set in the Northern Ireland soil from County Down to the North Antrim shores with a full years filming on each farm, featuring all the latest technology in modern farming. Tom Cochrane, the reigning European Champion 2014 is obviously passionate about his ploughing and sets to work in the North Antrim coastline in Portstewart. Slurry sowing, mowing and spreading lime etc. Sit back and watch Tom as he spends a year of farm contracting. Fresh Fields is a different kind of production, the McKee Brothers from Comber in County Down grow carrots, parsnips and kale. As they work we see how particular they give great attention to detail. In the factory we see how they prepare their ware with careful packing for you the customer. BH Dickey & Son from Cullybackey provides a seasonal contracting service beginning in the springtime with dung spreading and sowing. Later in the season, silage, mowing and bailing both round and square. Harvesting cereall is one of their busy contracting schedules. They managed to juggle all this with intensive poultry production producing a crop of birds every six to eight weeks. Clyde Contracts in Ballyclare is a busy farmer and contractor. This production follows Stephen and his workforce as they run the dairy farm, cut hedges, spread slurry using various methods, plough, sow and harvest silage, wholecrop and maize. Narrated by Dr John Kerr |
