DVD

This DVD has been filmed around farms in Scotland, Ireland and Germany and we see some of the jobs that go on around the farm in the summertime.

One job that people enjoy viewing is harvesting grass with all the big machinery that is used for cutting, lifting and sometimes baling it and getting it to the farm yard for winter feed for the livestock. We also see them harvesting wheat, barley, onions and broad beans in this film.

One unusual story is about a field of organic grass in Scotland, that has to be transported some fifty miles away to an organic farm with nine tractors and trailers. They needed more help and the contractor called in his brother's Scania R580 articulated unit and tipping trailer along with two more Scania trucks with high body's on them.

When the R.T.E. farming programme "Ear to the Ground" called to see John Dan O'Hare at work on the farm in Co. Down they couldn't believe what they saw. It was his grandson's birthday and as he goes to the farm everyday John Dan decided to surprise him and his friends when he put some of his extensive machinery out into the field beside the house, including five harvesters and a fleet of John Deere tractors and Kane trailers to lift the grass, and a helicopter also arrived.

Duration: 60mins