First batch of grain fails merchant tests due to ‘unrelenting rain’

Grain loads in Wexford are among the first to fail grain merchants’ tests due to the impact of the past three months of unrelenting rainfall, says IFA national grain committee chairman Noel Delany.

The IFA grain leader said 11% of the Wexford loads he had seen delivered to Boortmalt had failed the malt producer’s rigorous germination tests. News of the test failures emerged at a meeting of IFA grain producers in Dublin yesterday.

Mr Delany said grain growers’ incomes will be down €100m on 2011 levels due to rain damage.