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Principal Rosie Ambrose took me for a look.

Who owns this field?

We're in Curran of the Boyne Rivers Trust, and they really are doing an incredibly amount of impressive work there.

I feel the need, though, to just put in, in kind of brackets or in parentheses right now, that just because we highlight best practice on this programme, we show you all of the innovative stuff, you might end up getting the idea that all of this is solved, that nature is completely restored.

So it's a real mix.

What does it teach the kids about instant gratification and having to wait to see results when they look at something like this going in and taking its own sweet time?

I'm afraid the kind of the more accurate picture here is that much of what we routinely talk about on Countrywide is not happening at scale.

We know what to do.

We're not doing enough of it in enough different places around the country.

What did you make about the controversy over this book this week?

When you say standalone, if it was the only book that they ever read, that would be a little bit of a problem, perhaps.

Rosie Ambrose, Principal of St Patrick's National School, Kirtlestown in Wicklow.

And we probably should have counted on the good common sense of teachers before we let this row over the book get lagged.

There are 200,000 tractors in Ireland.

8 degrees and blustery here, 26 degrees and contentious in the Straits of Hormuz as you've been hearing in the headlines there.

170,000 of them would be about the same size and power range as that very snazzy Fent battery tractor that we got a demo of earlier.

Farming is very much at the sharp end of oil price spikes and spikes just keep on happening.

Then there are about 30,000 much bigger beasts, the ones that need to put in an 18-hour working day, that need up to and beyond 400 horsepower.

Listen to this list.

2008, global financial crisis, $147 a barrel.