‘Farmers are tough by nature, they will fight through this’

“With regard to the fodder crisis, there has been a lot of talk recently about starvation in cattle. Well I haven’t seen that,” says Sean Treacy who has been a practicing vet in the Listowel, Co Kerry area for 38 years.

“I would have had a couple of instances where there would have been what I would call welfare issues. Malnutrition problems yes, but not what you would call starvation.

“Starvation of cattle to most right thinking farmers is abhorrent. And they would do everything within their power to prevent such a calamity. As I described to another man recently, a farmer would rather do without food himself, than see his cattle do without it.”