At the forefront: Farmers share their experiences of a changing climate in Ireland
A field flooded with water where winter wheat should be planted only for the very wet conditions on the lands of Tillage farmer Dick Fitzgerald, Loughane, East Cork, in November. Picture: Dan Linehan
Farmers have been telling their weather stories for a report commissioned by the Climate Change Advisory Council.
A tillage farmer said, “Like, there was one field in particular, there was beans in it, and the bean seed was actually washed out onto the laneway. And they were planted four inches deep.” A Shannon Callows farmer involved in agri-environmental schemes described how repeated summer floods in the early 2000s wiped out the corncrake.
