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With an estimated value of over €1,000, Wexford farmer Davy Crean has donated 50 freshly cut and wrapped silage bales to people that have been affected by last week’s atrocities in Donegal.
Crean, who has a mixed farm of tillage and 400 ewes in Bunclody, Co Wexford, decided on Sunday evening that once he was sufficient, someone else in need should benefit from his fortune.
“I had seven acres that wasn’t grazed and needed to be cut. I had enough for myself and I wasn’t going to use it, so I thought someone there will have use for it,” says Crean.
“It is baled up and wrapped now and 50 good bales have come off it,” he continued.
Wrapping taking place on Davy Crean’s farm.
Crean also told the Irish Farmers Journal that the bales are completely free of charge and that transport is the only thing that will need to be looked after.
“I will be bringing them in from the field today. All that needs to be taken care of is transport, I will even stack them myself.”
“I just hope that people would help me and do the same if something happened years down the line,” he concludes.
Flooding
While farming practices have continued in the south of the country, the torrential rain that fell earlier last week has caused devastation in much of Donegal, Derry and Tyrone, where many fields remain covered in silt and roads are still impassable.
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