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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Professor" data-source="post: 89483" data-attributes="member: 202">There's was too much last year and now the same's happening again for '24 .  .  .    There will be no relief from rain and sodden ground for farmers in the coming days, as according to Met Éireann's farming forecast, rainfall amounts will be two to four times the normal range.In its farming bulletin, the national forecaster said the week ahead will be unsettled, bringing showers and rain and some heavy downpours at times.It said soil conditions in fields are expected to worsen due to the rain.Conditions at the moment are preventing planting and turning livestock out of sheds.The forecaster said moderately or poorly drained soils will be waterlogged and all other soils will be saturated with all the forecast rainfall.The farming forecast issued yesterday comes ahead of the publication of Met Éireann's analysis of March weather later today.It is expected to show rainfall amounts in Ireland were 140% compared to normal, while amounts in some weather stations in the east and south of the country exceeded 200%, including Dublin Airport where rainfall was 219%, and the Phoenix Park where it was 211%.Across farming sectors, the bad weather has severely hampered spring operations, preventing cows and cattle being turned out to graze fields where grass growth has been good.In a normal year, animals that had been housed over the winter would generally be in fields by day and night by the beginning of April.Grain farmers are also struggling to plant. They have seed stored up and ready to go, but field conditions mean machinery cannot be deployed on wet soils.The potato sector is one that is being badly affected by wet soils in fields.Irish Farmers' Association's National Potato chairperson Sean Ryan said early planting that should have gone ahead in February did not, and only a fraction of the main crop that normally gets planted in mid-March is in the ground.He said the current bad weather comes after last year's harvest was one of the most difficult in recent memory, when many growers forced to leave potatoes in the ground as conditions prevented them being harvested.[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2024/0403/1441346-rainfall-farms/[/URL] I was going to ask a local farmer what his opinion on the report was until I heard He's quite proud to mix "Truth with Lies" - Straight from the horses mouth.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite12" alt="o_O" title="Er... what?    o_O" loading="lazy" data-shortname="o_O" /></blockquote>

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