Irelandscapes | Killyleagh Grain/Straw Harvest - (N Irish Farming Landscape Scenery On Film) @Irelandscapes | Uploaded August 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Killyleagh is a gorgeous Strangford Lough facing village featuring a stunningly ornate castle and many Georgian townhouses, sloping down to a harbour and surrounding lough inlets. It's definitely a place to stop, walk around and have something to eat. Around the village, many small roads lead deep into the countryside with twists and turns revealing classic farmland, calm sailing waters and causeways. Drive slow and take in the many scenes.
At the start of this film you see the harvested grain being pumped from the Combine into the red trailer. Another (fiilled) trailer will be pulled by a tractor to it's silo storage location - in this case a farm at the other side of nearby Killyleagh village. While the Combine cuts and threshes, the crop owner will bring his trailers back and forth for more grain loads. Left behind are neat rows of straw ready to be gathered and bailed within 24 hours. You can see this baling process here at Cushendun in 2020:
youtu.be/7F-vdZMa-MQ
"Straw is a byproduct from crops that are grown for seed. The left over stubble from cereal crops like barley, oats and wheat as well as grasses are commonly processed into straw. Straw is the stalk of the plant that remains after the seed has been combined. A combine cuts and threshes the grains of the plant using rotating blades, wheels, sieves and elevators manufactured in the combine. As the grain is collected inside the combine harvester, it separates the stalks and distributes them back onto the field. Once the remaining stalks in the field are dried, they are raked and baled just like hay and haylage."
Killyleagh is a gorgeous Strangford Lough facing village featuring a stunningly ornate castle and many Georgian townhouses, sloping down to a harbour and surrounding lough inlets. It's definitely a place to stop, walk around and have something to eat. Around the village, many small roads lead deep into the countryside with twists and turns revealing classic farmland, calm sailing waters and causeways. Drive slow and take in the many scenes.
At the start of this film you see the harvested grain being pumped from the Combine into the red trailer. Another (fiilled) trailer will be pulled by a tractor to it's silo storage location - in this case a farm at the other side of nearby Killyleagh village. While the Combine cuts and threshes, the crop owner will bring his trailers back and forth for more grain loads. Left behind are neat rows of straw ready to be gathered and bailed within 24 hours. You can see this baling process here at Cushendun in 2020:
youtu.be/7F-vdZMa-MQ
"Straw is a byproduct from crops that are grown for seed. The left over stubble from cereal crops like barley, oats and wheat as well as grasses are commonly processed into straw. Straw is the stalk of the plant that remains after the seed has been combined. A combine cuts and threshes the grains of the plant using rotating blades, wheels, sieves and elevators manufactured in the combine. As the grain is collected inside the combine harvester, it separates the stalks and distributes them back onto the field. Once the remaining stalks in the field are dried, they are raked and baled just like hay and haylage."
