No feed crisis likely in future rainy Ireland

TORRENTIAL rain at the Ploughing Championships left farmers worrying about the livestock back home, and fearing damage to precious late grazing which could play a vital role in staving off a winter feed crisis.

Depending on where they turned at the Ploughing, there was good news and bad news.

An upbeat Gerry Giggins of Keenan Nutrition said there should be no such thing as a feed crisis in a developed agriculture industry like Ireland’s — a re-assuring verdict from the Irish company which can claim to be the world leader in total mixed ration feeding, and the second largest manufacturer of mixer-wagons internationally.