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DEAR SIR: I am an avid reader of the online edition of the Irish Farmers Journal. This is the first time I have emailed you. Driving through our beautiful countryside this summer and hailing from a rural area, I can’t get over the amount of hay bales left in the fields. I know there is a multitude of reasons for this: inadequate storage space, low prices for sellers due to the abundance of fodder this year. As aforementioned, farmers, due to the kind weather, have by-and-large secured plenty of fodder for the coming year. The reason I am emailing is that I feel our Government and the farming community at large are missing a trick here, by perhaps not securing this feed at a reasonable price and storing it for a time when the next fodder crisis comes around and we have to import it at high costs for the farmer and taxpayer. This feels like a lost opportunity at a time when we can all make hay while the sun shines.
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