Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Professor" data-source="post: 62072" data-attributes="member: 202">Some do, especially in Ireland  .  .  .Growers are warning of a potato shortage as they say this year’s harvest is the “worst in living memory”.The potato harvest is “rapidly turning into a salvage operation” as drills are underwater following recent flooding, the Irish Farmers’ Association has warned.IFA national potato committee chairman Sean Ryan said that as it stands, “around 60% of crop remains to be harvested”.“Sizeable losses have occurred already which are likely to substantially increase as we progress through the harvest,” Mr Ryan said.<img src="https://www.irishexaminer.com/cms_media/module_img/7674/3837334_1_articleinlinemobile_dan_20water_203.jpg" alt="Picture: Dan Linehan" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />“Met Éireann data shows some stations have already exceeded the average annual total rainfall and others close to it. Now that we are in November, we are in extremely difficult territory with this much crop left to be harvested.”Mr Ryan said that the heavy rain has “washed most of the clay off the top of the drills” leaving the crop more prone to frost damage.“A few hard frosts at this point will wipe out entire crops,” he added.Supply concernss' Denis O’Connor, who grows potatoes in East Cork, has said that growers in the area are “all in the same boat” and that if there isn’t some dry weather before Christmas, “it will be very serious”.                                                  “If we could get two or three dry weeks, definitely it would improve things but there’s a pile of damage after being done already,” Mr O’Connor said.“Even if we do get dry weather, there’s going to be a huge loss. If they were all harvested in good conditions, they were going to be scarce, never mind with all the losses now.”<img src="https://www.irishexaminer.com/cms_media/module_img/7674/3837337_1_articleinlinemobile_dan_20water_209.jpg" alt="Water-logged potatoes in a field in East Cork. Picture: Denis Linehan" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Water-logged potatoes in a field in East Cork. Picture: Denis LinehanNormally, Mr O’Connor said he would be finished harvesting by October 31, “but this year, we’ve three weeks of work ahead of us yet”.“If we had them in store there would be no bother as you would just be bagging out but if we get dry weather in December now, we’ll have to be harvesting and trying to pack them out.”He added that the costs of harvesting have increased significantly as well for growers this year, adding to the “hardship” of it all.[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.irishexaminer.com/farming/arid-41265394.html[/URL]</blockquote>

Name

Verification: Does Doxxie know his real father.

Latest Threads

The Occult War
- Started by céline
- Yesterday at 12:37 PM
- Replies: 2
Public Chat and Announcements
S
Mystery surrounding the first performance of Shakespeare in Ireland, Coleraine 1628
- Started by scolairebocht
- Friday at 1:55 PM
- Replies: 6
Scholairebochts Blog.
Pentagon orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admiral
- Started by Anderson
- Thursday at 10:47 AM
- Replies: 49
USA
Retailers and communities on the 'chaos' of anti-social behaviour
- Started by Anderson
- Thursday at 4:36 AM
- Replies: 5
Ireland
Is Irish Literature inherently Left-Wing?
- Started by céline
- Sep 21, 2025
- Replies: 2
Ireland

Popular Threads

Ukraine.
- Started by Declan
- Feb 21, 2022
- Replies: 15K
World at War
US Politics.
- Started by jpc
- Nov 7, 2022
- Replies: 6K
USA
Mass Migration to Ireland & Europe
- Started by Anderson
- Feb 26, 2023
- Replies: 5K
Nationalist Politics
C
🦠 Covid 19 Vaccine Thread 💉
- Started by Charlene
- Sep 14, 2021
- Replies: 3K
Health
General Chat in The Marcus Lounge.
- Started by Declan
- Dec 30, 2024
- Replies: 3K
Public Chat and Announcements
The Climate Change scam
- Started by Anderson
- Jul 29, 2022
- Replies: 2K
Climate Change