Fodder crisis.The solution.

Cattle and sheep are dying of starvation.Hay and its substitutes are being in imported by the ship load from England and the continent.the cost of this fodder is leaving the country.Farmers are in the export business and have been from Famine times.
With a little imagination the problem could be solved countrywide without importing even one square bale of hay.
If you drive on the motorways and big roads anywhere in Ireland you will witness hundreds of thousands of acres of perfectly good grazing land going to waste and actually costing the taxpayer money to cut and dispose of it.
All this land is stock proof where it adjoins the farmers land at its boundaries.It is not stock proof where it adjoins the road.
A campaign to make it stock proof would not cost the world and once  done would be there for decades,Not only would such work prove therapeutic for those doing it but would help stem the plague of emigration.
There is absolutely no way that the sucker and dry stock herds could not  be accommodated to make the remaining stripped land available for the dairy cows that must be milked twice daily.
Britain learned to feed itself during the Great War by ploughing every square yard of ground available.
Sheep and dry stock farmers and their families would have to revert to the old job of shepherding and be with their flocks all the time.So what.
I know that the politically correct do gooders who achieve nothing will have a million reasons for doing nothing but so what.Where there is a will there is a way.