Irish Harvest Deja Vu

It's becoming a case of deja vu for Irish growers it would seem. Most nights when I watch the weather on TV the forecaster trots out something along the lines of "before another wave of rain comes in across Ireland" or something very similar.

A report in the Irish Independent says that whilst things aren't as bad as last year yet, a succession of heavy downpours means that they are getting there.

Yields have been extremely variable they say, especially for spring barley where they range from 2-3MT/acre, with averages around 2.3-2.4MT/acre, around 16% lower than last season.

Winter wheat yields are from 2.8-4.2MT/acre, with an average around 3.5-3.7MT/acre, they say. That's down around 14% on 2008.