Whatever the weather - Ireland among EU states placing lowest priority on farming's climate adaption

Some sources were warning last week there could be a severe impact on winter fodder supplies in 2023-24.
Whatever the weather - Ireland among EU states placing lowest priority on farming's climate adaption

Weather stations at Athenry, Co Galway; Mace Head, Co Galway; and Mount Dillon, Co Roscommon, have just had their wettest March on record, breaking records set up to 32 years ago.

Could this year's wet spring be a taste of climate change to come?

Right now, farmers are more worried about the weekly forecast for full-time grazing or for sowing crops in late April than the often dire end-of-the-century weather warnings.

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