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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Professor" data-source="post: 89572" data-attributes="member: 202">Irish Farmers' Association's National Potato chairperson Sean Ryan has said there is a likelihood of potato shortages in supermarkets later in the year as less than 50 acres of the usual 21,000 acres have actually been planted so far.Mr Ryan's comments came as Met Éireann's farming forecast said there will be no relief from rain and sodden ground for farmers in the coming days as rainfall amounts will be two to four times the normal range.He said: "Yes, it's very likely at this stage because there was 700 acres that were not harvested at all last year and most of them were damaged with frost, so they are gone out of the equation."The situation is going to be very tight and there probably will be empty shelves in supermarkets by the end of the year."Mr 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]</blockquote>

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