The Irish Farmers Association (IFA) today launched a Fodder Crisis Fund of €1m to assist farmers through the worst fodder crisis in living memory. 

Lobster landings have fallen by as much as 90% off the east coast of Scotland,

With potatoes in short supply as big freeze hits crops, the price of potatoes has risen by half.

Average price of vegetables jumps 55 percent in ten weeks.

Most roads blocked by heavy snowfall and rebels. 

Local farmers and some 300 workers rushed to repair almost 400 vegetable greenhouses,