Rachel Martin: Prayers are being said to bring an end to the incessant rainfall

The financial cost of feeding livestock silage compared to grass is around double, then add the additional labour of bedding, cleaning and opening bales or lifting silage out a clamp.

Fields near Killeagh in East Cork saturated with water after the wettest March in eighty years. Picture Dan Linehan

It can’t rain all the time… or at least, we all hope it can’t. I never thought I’d find myself quoting The Crow on our Farming pages, but the Irish countryside really is beginning to feel like one of those film noirs — gritty, dirty, and eternally depressing.

And for those who can get any work done outside, even minor jobs are quickly turning into a quagmire.