Brendan Burke, the farm manager in Teagasc Oak Park, joins the Tillage Edge this week to chat about the harvest progress on the farm.  

Despite the weather, Brendan says his team have made good progress and pretty much all of the ripe crops are harvested.  However, Brendan says saving the straw was more difficult and much of it is still on the ground.

Brendan explains the process of harvesting in Oak Park as every field has some trial plots which need to be harvested by plot combines.  This harvesting is slow as each plot needs an exact yield, quality parameters and in many cases physical samples may also need to be taken.

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