SHOPPERS COULD BE met with empty shelves this summer when they go looking for potatoes, after extremely wet weather delayed planting to long after it should have started. Coming on top of a poor ...
A potential potato shortage is looming with growers months behind schedule due to adverse weather conditions over the past few months and consumers are being warned the price of potatoes and ...
One of the country’s major potato farms, Meade Farm in Meath, is way behind schedule having planted no crops up to last week. “We haven’t planted any potatoes this year,” said Daniel ...
A “lucky” Donegal farmer, who is one of the first in the country to manage to plant a few acres of potatoes this season, says farmers are under huge stress with the incessant rain. Jamie Rankin was ...
A "lucky" Donegal farmer, who is one of the first in the country to manage to plant a few acres of potatoes this season, says farmers are under huge stress with the incessant rain. Jamie Rankin was ...
They're not the words that any Irish person wants to hear - but we may be looking at a shortage of potatoes in the near future. According to farmers, a major potato shortage is looming this autumn, ...
The battle lines have been drawn and redrawn many times and still the struggle to gain new territory goes on. It is not so ...
A shortage of seed potatoes will seriously limit the acreage of maincrop spuds planted this year and is likely to hit yields. “Many growers only received approximately 50% of the seed they requested ...
May marks your last chance to sow seed of a variety of fast-growing hardy and half-hardy summer-flowering annuals, a ...
It has continued to rain in inches rather than millimetres, putting massive strain on farmer’s mental health. The to-do list did not get far since my last column as dry days totalled four – it ...