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Gerald Potterton farms tillage and some beef at Kildalkey, Co. Meath.\ Jack Caffrey It was last Friday morning, the sun was shining and it had been dry for all of two days. The yard concrete was whitening off nicely, in a way not seen in a while. Although, we did get the slatted tanks emptied a fortnight ago in good enough conditions but it had rained a lot in the interim. Regular straw customer Mark was tying his load and he quipped: “Weather’s up and the pressure’s on – you’ll be busy next week.” He had read my mind perfectly. The pressure is certainly on and there’s much to be done. The bould Bruno – no stranger to this column – has a classic but rude phrase to describe how excited some of his (male) contracting customers can become with the arrival of haymaking weather. I can’t possibly repeat it here but the same could be said of excited tillage farmers greeting the arrival of a perfect combination of sunshine and drying wind in the springtime.