Revealed: Farmers’ desperate appeals to Minister for support – from handwritten letters to emails
One letter explained how by late March, more than 650 acres of potato crop remained unharvested and that others had been forced into ‘salvage operations’ on their land. Stock Image: Getty.
Desperate farmers wrote to Agriculture Minister Charlie McConalogue about being left in severe financial hardship because above-average rainfall had left their land damp and sometimes inaccessible.
The Department received representations from stricken farmers and industry organisations, with one writing about one landowner who “cannot get access to [his] fields due to the very poor weather”.
