Skip to content

Farming experts say it’s too early to say there’ll be a fodder shortage due to the heatwave. Grass growth has slowed, and Met Eireann is predicting sunshine until well into next week, which is worrying some farmers, particularly those in the dairy sector. But Teagasc says if farmers do a…

The Department of Agriculture says fodder will need to be imported again after the recent bad weather. Minister Michael Creed says officials will develop a scheme to support this importation after meeting with the main co-ops this afternoon. Farmer and News Correspondent with the Irish Farmers Journal Hannah Quinn-Mulligan says…

The Minister for Agriculture has announced the details of the transport subsidy for farmers with a fodder shortage. To qualify you need to be transporting the fodder over 100km. The rates for the fodder subsidy will be €12 for a bale of silage and €8 for a bale of hay/straw.…

A Leitrim Councillor has hit out strongly at the Minister for Agriculture for denying that there is a fodder crisis. Fianna Fail Councillor in Leitrim Paddy O’Rourke who himself is in the business of transporting fodder to farmers says he is stunned at the Minister’s point blank denial in an…

Individual farming organisations say that fodder reserves are available for farmers in need. While no official scheme has been sanctioned by the government, farming organisations have supports in place themselves. In a statement today, the IFA has matched up counties in need with those who can meet that need. Carlow…