‘Anyone who had a meadow for feed lost everything’ – farmers’ struggles to get compensation for flooded land on Shannon Callows
Farmers claim Department’s satellite monitoring system failed to detect flooding in many cases – even when meadows had ‘two-to-three foot of water under the grass’
Flooding in Clonfert Callows. Photos: Gerry Stronge
The Shannon Callows Flood Scheme was introduced by the Department of Agriculture last year to support farmers who were not able to make fodder this year after exceptional flooding.
However, a number of farmers whose land has been flooded this year on the Callows say the Area Monitoring System (AMS) has not been able to identify many of the flooded areas and they have been left with poor levels of compensation.
