Cattle mart reports: Top grade cattle to be auctioned as Kanturk Mart is rearing to raise funds for Rickie

Fellows at this time of the year can often be found complaining that they have the world of trouble to contend with, writes Denis Lehane.

Take beef farming for example. There’s the business of dealing with the bank and securing the funds to embark on a new year of cattle trading. Then there’s the silage, and concerns about having enough to see out the winter. Worries also about the cattle you have and the ones you have yet to purchase. Worries about the spring. Will it ever start? Will the rain ever stop?