‘Even the leaves burned off the briars . . . It was something we had never seen before’
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/even-the-leaves-burned-off-the-briars-it-was-something-we-had-never-seen-before-1.1374369
North Wexford farmer Pat Murray has enough silage for another three days: Where I go from there I dont know, he said yesterday.
The nationwide shortage of animal fodder is impacting deeply on Murray. Like other farmers across the country, he is struggling with high feed costs and a shortage of hay and silage caused by a bad winter.
His mixed farm is located in a scenic spot with Mount Leinster to one side and the sea to the other just a mile inside the Wexford border at Knocknagappale and a couple of kilometres north of Monaseed, birthplace of Myles Byrne, leader in the 1798 Rebellion.
Pat Murray is the latest in a long line of Murrays to have farmed here but in over 30 years of farming, the 52-year-old says this has probably been the toughest year he has faced.