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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Professor" data-source="post: 62073" data-attributes="member: 202">eather unpredictability and above normal rainfall has made it a difficult year for the agricultural sector.Most farmers were affected in some way or another and right now, potato growers are facing serious crop losses as waterlogged fields impede this year's harvest.In a ten-hectare field just outside Enniscorthy, Co Wexford, potato grower Sean Ryan is assessing conditions.As he walks between the drills, his boots squelch in three inches of water as this part of the potato field is waterlogged.The drills, carefully prepared and planted back in the late spring are now soaked after months of rain that flows in rivulets between them.It has been a challenging year, according to Mr Ryan.<img src="https://img.rasset.ie/001f19ee-614.jpg?ratio=1.78" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Sean Ryan said this year has been a challengeHe said: "We were probably five to six weeks later planting, and we got a lot of rain all summer as well."It was a struggle all year long, and then we'd thought we'd get a good end, a good harvest but it just did not happen."[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2023/1110/1415721-potato-crop/[/URL]</blockquote>

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