It started with a strange trip to Tesco. Not a parking space to be had, nor a packet of pasta.
It's business but not as we normally know it for farming.
Beef cattle listings on DoneDeal have surged 32pc year-on-year in the wake of the suspension of normal trading at livestock marts.
Over 155,000ha of spring barley and spring wheat is being planted for this year's harvest, a 50pc increase on the area sown last year.
Organisers of the country's best-attended annual event are 'ploughing ahead' with plans to stage this year's event in spite of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Many people are presently confined to their homes contemplating life and wondering what's coming next, but for farmers life goes on as normal.
As Covid-19 has kept much of the country under lockdown, farming activity has cranked up a gear or two over the last week as the spring weather improved.
