Famous Farmers?

mrmac

Doing a bit of a personal history project about 'Farm Machinery' and 'Famous Farmers' - and I'm looking for help!

I'm not from a farming background, although I did spend many summers growing up, helping my uncle harvest potatoes.
Fond memories of a grey diesel, and a very abused MF 135!

Anyway, here's the kind of information I'm trying to track down:

Person: Sir Edmund Hillary (doesn't have to be an actual farmer)
Tractor: Ferguson TE-20 (or at least it started out as one!)




Any pointers, that would help me search in the right direction, would be greatly appreciated.

ganmo

The tullow tank is a massey man

mrmac

Person: Sean O'Brien - 'Tullow Tank'
Tractor: Massey Ferguson



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Limestone Cowboy

ganmo wrote: »

The tullow tank is a massey man

It's also a well know fact that Sean O Brien produces more torque than his Massey.

endacl

An ex 'leader of the free world' was a peanut farmer?

Count Mondego

endacl wrote: »

An ex 'leader of the free world' was a peanut farmer?

Forde?

visatorro

Jimmy Carter

I said

Himmler was a chicken farmer

farmertipp

Afaik Harry Truman was also a chicken farmer at one stage

pedigree 6

The Chinese president.
The chap that visited Ireland a few years ago was a farmer.

Bellview

Does the late queen mother qualify.. angus and horses

Keepgrowing

Oliver Cromwell

Isaac Newton were farmers

kowtow

Keepgrowing wrote:

Isaac Newton were farmers

Keepgrowing wrote:

Oliver Cromwell

Robert Frost, fond of midnight milking.

Often think of him when two roads diverge in a wood, and my cows have taken the other one.

pedigree 6

Sir David Brown of David Brown tractors and David Brown Aston Martin was a farmer.

Guy Martin the tt racer and the speed series on tv owns a tractor.
I'm claiming him as a farmer.:D

croot

Bruce Springsteen has an organic farm in New Jersey.

Alex James from Blur makes cheese on his farm in the Cotswolds. Award winning cheese as well.

Squall Leonhart

Keeping the music theme going, Bill Berry, the R.E.M. drummer quit the band after 16 years to farm potatoes. Still at it nearly 2 decades later as far as I know!

feargale

www.ranker.com › list › reference

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smithmeadows.com › Farm

www.balls.ie › rugby › 15-of-the-greates...

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ganmo

kowtow wrote: »

Robert Frost, fond of midnight milking.

Often think of him when two roads diverge in a wood, and my cows have taken the other one.

Miles to go before I sleep...

freedominacup

endacl wrote: »

An ex 'leader of the free world' was a peanut farmer?

A regular enough visitor to the near neighbours here in fact. They have/had a farm bounding him. In a Irish context they'd be famous enough as well.

freedominacup

Clarkson has a farm. If not two.

Dawggone

freedominacup wrote: »

Clarkson has a farm. If not two.

Yes.
James Dyson has a few acres...

Dawggone

Seamus Heaney.

Grueller

Remember the ivomec ad, Joe Cooney, hurler and farmer scores with ivomec.

fastrac

George Washington

Reggie.

Guy Richie and Madonna have a large farm in southern england

kevthegaff

George strait

mikeoh

Bull Hayes a dairy man also Ritchie McCaw the all black too I think

kollegeknight

Henry ford was the son of a farmer. I think he even trialed a hemp powered car.

freedominacup

Dawggone wrote: »

Yes.
James Dyson has a few acres...

Different scale to Clarkson though I think. Big inheritance tax play with Dyson. Waffle would have an idea about the workings of it I'm sure.

MF290

Michael O'Leary has a herd of pedigree Angus

Odelay

I've seen a documentary about Kim kardashian, she was a relief milker.

TITANIUM.

Russell Crowe has a large working ranch back in Oz. When be needs to get in shape for Movies he says that it's off to the farm for a few months to knock abit of blubber off.

goz83

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKKu4O3-IB0

Right2Write

Charles Stewart Parnell - the 'uncrowned king of Ireland', strong interests in farming and forestry.

Horace Plunkett, associated with the farmer co-op movement but there was some chap who a lot of the dog work on the ground, cycling around setting up co-ops, can't recall his name but he did the real work.

Michael O'Leary???

Water John

The Bull Hayes is suckler beef I think, not dairy.

Briege Corkery and husband work on a large dairy farm.

Water John

Right, A E Russell did the cycling.

blue5000

Dawggone wrote: »

Yes.
James Dyson has a few (thousand) acres...

I could be wrong, but he's nearly as bad as some of the stud farms in S. Tipp. Hopefully waffletractor will fill us in.

ganmo

blue5000 wrote: »

I could be wrong, but he's nearly as bad as some of the stud farms in S. Tipp. Hopefully waffletractor will fill us in.

i've often wondered was dyson BG's big boss that he mentions everynow and then

endacl

Martin Clunes.

http://www.buckhamfair.co.uk/

Does it all with heavy horses.

pedigree 6

Michael d Higgins grew up on a farm and Hitler's father was a beekeeper.

selectamatic

In the past it was common for many athletes to have come from a farming background hence the term "farm strong".

Heavy weight champion Joe frazier grew up on a farm in beufort south carolina working as a sharecropper in the early 50's.

feargale

TDs 2011:

Ned O'Keeffe
- Sean O'Ferghail
- Michael Moynihan
- Seamus Kirk
- Billy Kelleher
- Paul Kehoe
- Tom Hayes
- Bernard Durkan
- Michael Creed
- Seymour Crawford
- Simon Coveney
- Paul Connaughton
- Pat Breen
- John Brady
- Bobby Aylward

You'll find lots more, past and present.

Tail painter

Odelay wrote: »

I've seen a documentary about Kim kardashian, she was a relief milker.

Brilliant!

Tail painter

Rory Best, the late Nevin Spence.

Water John

Feargale, you are very generous if you call some of those TDs, farmers, from my knowledge. Yes, they all own land.

Waffletraktor

ganmo wrote: »

i've often wondered was dyson BG's big boss that he mentions everynow and then

Nope. They are from old, old, old, old, old, old, old, old, old, old, old and older still money that hasnt managed to go broke yet and stays far from the limelight.
One of the sons was an officer in the pathfinder specialforces, another child has done the medic,docs without borders type thing. It a case of the money is mostly in familial trusts, the children were sent out to do whatever they wanted so long as they did something as its a case of money will never be an issue but they wanted them grounded if thats possible.
The mother is one of the nicest people you could hope to meet, and the big boss is a moody arse at times you have to tell to ring you back in an hour if they persist in being so.

Waffletraktor

blue5000 wrote: »

I could be wrong, but he's nearly as bad as some of the stud farms in S. Tipp. Hopefully waffletractor will fill us in.

The same priiciple, an inheritance tax fudge and somewhere to store money for future generations. Though they are upto 30k acres+ with a few AD plants and such, hired some of the top guys to run it and are very private.

blue5000

Yes it seems to be a very tax efficient way to transfer wealth to the next generation. In Ireland anyway, also seen it happen in Denmark with carpet land.

pedigree 6

Christopher Columbus ran a cheese stall.

laoch na mona

would some of the people mentioned be landlords not farmers? I'd never have considered the 'gentlemen farmers' (lads who do nothing but own the land) as actually farmers

James Connolly's parents were farmers somewhere in Monaghan before they emigrated to Scotland

Jack O'Connor was a farm labourer at one point

pedigree 6

Sir Edmund Hillary the Everest climber grew up on a farm in New Zealand.
Then he kept bees and was a beekeeper in the summer and a mountain climber in the winter.
He was a very shy man.

When he retired he bought and lived on a farm on the north island.