Tips for dealing with rain-disrupted crops and plans
‘My entire cropping and nutrient management plan has to be redrawn and rotation re-planned’
Tom Tierney in a field of winter barley on his Kildare farm. Photo: Damien Eagers
Climate change or normal weather pattern? It’s a question I keep asking myself as we wait impatiently for the spring to dry up and to get moving with the mounting workload.
It seems to have been relentless since last summer, with constant wet disrupting crops and plans, and in the back of your mind you wonder if we will then be hammered with a drought in the months ahead when we finally get going?
