TheJournal.ie reports:
Because of poor weather most spring crops were planted between 6 and 8 weeks later than normal.
Farmers were banking on a perfect growing season for these crops to achieve a normal yield, however the drought set in shortly after planting and many crops have received almost no rain since they were placed in the ground.
Total cereal production is set to drop by 27% while, with production set to fall by a staggering 58%, the worst performing crop is forecast to be wheat planted in the spring.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday July 26 2018, @01:50PM (5 children)
Honeycomb's big. Yeah, yeah, yeah! It's not small. No, no, no!.
Twinkies don't go bad for at least one quarter of a galactic rotation. Grow genetically modified and cross bread cereal. Cross breed cereal with twinkies so that the lucky charms harvest is as good as the twinkie harvest.
To get a good grant, also explore the possibility of cross breeding cereal with Big Macs, to get harvests as good as the Big Mac harvest.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 26 2018, @02:26PM (4 children)
So, what are you suggesting? Should we break into that seed archive, to get some Honeycomb seed and Twinkie seed for the Irish?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by DannyB on Thursday July 26 2018, @02:35PM (3 children)
Okay, here's a solution. Didn't we just recently read an SN story about the US having an over supply of meat?
While I would support open air outdoor storage of huge piles of that meat next to PETA offices, we could also gift some to the Irish.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 26 2018, @02:56PM
This is just too funny. I was told, by an AC, that I need more fiber in my diet. https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=26797&cid=713127 [soylentnews.org] Now, you want to deprive the Irish of their fiber, by shipping them mountains of protein. Funny how stuff just flows along on SN.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @03:22PM
The "oversupply" of meat sounds a lot like the "undersupply" of tech workers.
In older times we called this "price fixing".
(Score: 2) by Alfred on Thursday July 26 2018, @03:22PM