The best-laid plans of of farmers and mice are often the ones which go awry

Difficult weather conditions have meant Brian has had to go back to the drawing board.

Brian Keane from Enniscorthy, Co Wexford.: Patrick Browne

The farm is a mixed farm with cattle, tillage and sheep. I normally have around half the farm in tillage, which is approximately 100 acres. I generally grow winter barley & wheat, spring barley & wheat and Spring beans. This year I have all spring barley.

Conditions were so poor last autumn that I could not get any winter crops into the ground, and likewise, this spring, I ended up sowing all spring barley.