I used to try to work out how many Bales of hay or straw there might be in the Load and then try to work out the cost per bale. It didn’t seem to make economic sense. How could any farmer afford fodder at such a price? Sometimes the lorries were travelling on the motorways across Ireland, sometimes they would be coming from the Irish Sea ports. Who could afford to transport bales such distances?

One day I talked to a farmer about the long distance hay loads, wondering aloud …