High rainfall in July and August and expenses mean summer 2023 is becoming one of the worst on record for Irish farmers.
“We're looking at farmers in the Shannon area who got no hay saved at all,” she said. “As many as 5,000 bales of hay and silage not made in that region.This could cost approximately €150,000 for farmers in the region.Ms Morrissey also said tillage farmers “have been very badly hit in August”.
“Unfortunately, what we're seeing is that they have had their barley downgraded in the last cases from malting grain to feed grain," she said.July 2023 was recorded as the wettest summer on record by Met Éireann as Storm Antoni led to severe flooding in several areas. Met Éireann put out an Orange warning in the south-east and Yellow warnings throughout the county this weekend throughout the country as Storm Betty approached.
Heavy rainfall previously labelled the 2008 and 1990 seasons as the worst summers on record for Irish farmers.
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