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

11K views · 180 reactions | Documentry of how the people of Ireland lived and farmed the land in the years before the famine.. | Videos of Irish Farming Life | Facebook

In this short film we look at the harvesting of the corn as how it would have been done in the 1950s and 1960s in Ireland. | Videos of Irish Farming Life

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

Video showing potato farming in Ireland through the last century. Video clip was taken from the DVD "A Taste of Farming Life" which is included in our Classic Collection boxset, now on sale at £26.99 Free P P UK & Ireland | Videos of Irish Farming Life

27K views · 1.2K reactions | To welcome the new followers of our page here is a monatge from our most popular videos from over the years.. Our new 6 dvd boxset will also be launched next week! | Videos of Irish Farming Life | 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