Whyte brothers

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But to feed the furnace with massive half-tonne bales, Jimmy had to engineer and build their own bale lifter. The next generation of sons are already managing significant parts of the Whyte business, but more youngsters may join the crew yet.

Joseph 25 is the youngest of the sons currently working full time on the farm. I was lucky I did that because you can get comfortable in the tractor," he says. One is a 6t trailed one, but you do less tracking with the 3t mounted version because we have it on a tractor with big mm wide wheels.

There's a fair bit of paperwork as well, but we've everything online now so we can access it on the phones wherever we are," says Joseph. He's also the man behind the farm's foray into the branded world via Facebook with their Whyte Bros Potatoes page that has garnered over 1, likes from machinery enthusiasts wowed by drone footage of the harvest. The Whytes operate a fleet of 11 tractors and are New Holland men. All crops are sown into ploughed ground except for the oilseed rape, which is direct drilled in with a Sumo sub-soiler.

It suits us because it saves time when we're under a lot of pressure," says Anthony Whyte. How these Dublin brothers built up a massive 3,ac farm from scratch. Close Joseph left and Jimmy Whyte. Photo: Seamus Farrelly. Thank you for buying the paper and using the code. Please try again or contact us. For assistance, call 01 or email subs farmersjournal. Read about how the code works here. Sign in. Incorrect details. Please try again or reset password. If would like to speak to a member of our team, please call us on Reset password.

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