Posted on 11/10/2023 10:27:15 PM PST by Olog-hai
Weather 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, County 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. […]
Most of the potatoes he digs are rotten, soft like butter and giving off a foul smell. At this point, Sean says they are not even usable for animal feed. […]
Around 50% of this year’s potato crop is still in the ground, and despite field conditions leaving machinery bogged down or clogged up with muck, and plenty more showers forecast for the coming days, growers are still hoping to harvest even though they are facing losses. …
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Importing more Muslims will help Ireland deal with this. How would that work? Beats the hell out of me.
Didn’t Ireland recently legalize abortion and counterfeit marriage?
That’s right. Homosexual pseudomarriage in 2015 and baby murder in 2018 (and the latter came in after they voted to protect the life of the unborn baby equally with the mother’s life in 1983).
Potato shortage in Ireland? Hmmm, sounds familiar.
I sure hope they don't run out of high fructose corn syrup. That would be the complete destruction of the combo meal deal.
It's gonna start raining frogs.
Blame it on Climate Change and raise your taxes to pay for windmills. Works every time!
The Irish may come to America and become cops and fireman and politicians and work on the railroad.... : )
That’s why you grow more than one crop.
Tammany Hall 2, just in time for 2024
Aw, man!!! Now we’re gonna be flooded with another buncha Mick immigrants.
(semi-obscure historical reference. Full disclosure, I’m the spawn of a buncha earlier Mick immigrants.)
We need more canals too.
That worldwide draught is brutal.
Good time to kill more cattle to save the planet
“That worldwide draught is brutal.”
Yep - it works like climate change - one area gets warmer and another area gets cooler for a zero sum game - same with droughts - the water that doesn’t fall in one place falls in another place.
Looks like Ireland is getting our rainfall as the South of Louisiana and Mississippi have been under drought - next year we’ll get someone else’s rain...
SAVE THE POTATOES!
“Potato shortage in Ireland? Hmmm, sounds familiar.”
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To me as well. I started recalling the history of the Ireland great potato famine in the mid-1800s and the terrible effects it had. So much disease and starvation for so many!
Cursed Israel.
I will give them credit.
Nowhere in the article do they blame globull warming.
Implying🤷🏿♀️.
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