THE ORGANISERS of an advanced course for young tractor drivers in Limerick are encouraging parents to sign up their sons and daughters for the pilot initiative.
“It could be the best three hours they ever spend,” said John Macnamara, a dairy farmer from Knockainey and one of the organisers.
The course, which takes place at Kilmallock Mart on Thursday, August 17, has been organised following a number of tragedies involving young people driving farm machinery.
Mr Macnamara said farmers’ sons and daughters are well able to do general farm work but they have very little experience of driving on the roads, or the weight of a slurry tank or trailer full of silage. Plus, the speed tractors are able to travel nowadays has vastly increased compared to a…
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