The first emergency batch of animal feed has arrived at Rosslare Port this morning.
The supplies have been shipped in from the UK by Dairygold, to tackle a shortage here after the bad weather.
In total 25-hundred extra tonnes of fodder has been ordered – it’ll be sold at cost price to farmers around the country.
News Correspondent with the Irish Farmers Journal Hannah Quinn says the signs were there early on, particularly in Donegal, that a crisis was imminent.
She says if measures were implemented sooner, the country may not be currently facing a national crisis:
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