Reopening of marts to buyers will be marked with price rise
Pictured at the Munster Branch Irish Angus bull sale in Kilmallock Mart, Co Limerick are Martin Hehir, Milltown Malbay with ‘Killernan Milltown Malbay’ that sold for €2,200. Photo O’Gorman Photography.
"The fellow who coined 'A wet and windy May fills the shed full of hay,' wasn't too worried about the poor grass in May," silage contractor Michael McCarthy said to me the other evening as he waited for conditions to improve.
In a normal year, which this certainly is not, men like Michael would be busy by now mowing and harvesting silage. Bringing into farmers yards the fodder that keeps our show on the road over the winter.
