Floyd McNeil; Declan McGorry, one of the truck drivers; Martin Hughes, haulage contractor; Charlie McCann; Niamh Smyth; and Deputy Shane Cassells, Navan, getting ready to send silage to flood-stricken Donegal farmers. \ Ramona Farrelly
Farmers have donated more than 1,000 bales of silage to Donegal colleagues devastated by flash flooding. \ Philip Doyle
Farmers from all over the country have donated more than 1,000 bales of silage worth €25,000 to their flood-stricken comrades in Co Donegal.
An appeal by the Active Agri Association resulted in dozens of farmers pledging to send bales north to the many cattle and sheep farmers on the Inishowen Peninsula who lost essential winter fodder stocks in August’s flash flooding.
A convoy of five articulated lorries left Meath on Wednesday with the first of the donated fodder to move to Donegal. The lorries carried silage from 22ac of grass donated by Noel and Valerie Moran from Bective House, Navan, Co Meath.
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Farmers have donated more than 1,000 bales of silage to Donegal colleagues devastated by flash flooding. \ Philip Doyle
Hauliers are donating their trucks, labour and cost of diesel in the coming weeks. The fodder will be distributed in association with Donegal IFA to those farmers who lost most. Charlie McCann of the Active Agri Association said he was delighted with the response to the appeal.
Generosity
“The generosity of people is beyond what I had even imagined,” he said. “We got fodder from almost every county in Ireland.”
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Farmers from all over the country have donated more than 1,000 bales of silage worth €25,000 to their flood-stricken comrades in Co Donegal.
An appeal by the Active Agri Association resulted in dozens of farmers pledging to send bales north to the many cattle and sheep farmers on the Inishowen Peninsula who lost essential winter fodder stocks in August’s flash flooding.
A convoy of five articulated lorries left Meath on Wednesday with the first of the donated fodder to move to Donegal. The lorries carried silage from 22ac of grass donated by Noel and Valerie Moran from Bective House, Navan, Co Meath.
Farmers have donated more than 1,000 bales of silage to Donegal colleagues devastated by flash flooding. \ Philip Doyle
Hauliers are donating their trucks, labour and cost of diesel in the coming weeks. The fodder will be distributed in association with Donegal IFA to those farmers who lost most. Charlie McCann of the Active Agri Association said he was delighted with the response to the appeal.
Generosity
“The generosity of people is beyond what I had even imagined,” he said. “We got fodder from almost every county in Ireland.”
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