33% of grain crop lost in West Cork

West Cork grain growers have lost 25-33% of their crop yields due to wet weather turning the harvest into a salvage operation.

Jim O’Regan, a large-scale local grower, said yesterday that it’s a disaster year for local growers, and follows last year’s local weather damage to a lot of Co Cork crops, as well as being the fourth year of low grain prices nationally.

The harvest has gone bad also for other tillage farms in coastal areas nationally, and throughout the north west, which has had more than 200 wet days so far this year.