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Flooding at Foxberry Fruit Farm, Northern Ireland

A Northern Irish strawberry grower may have lost £20,000 worth of crops following three feet of heavy flooding.

Philip Fox, of Foxberry Fruit Farm, in Derrytrasna,County Armagh,told The Belfast Telegraph that while the 42,000 plants are above the water, they might be lost as he cannot get near the plants to maintain them.

'We will lose over £20,000 if we cannot salvage the plants. It's a terrible situation and one that could prove very costly indeed,” Fox told the paper.

Footage posted on the company’s Facebook page shows people canoeing down the rows between strawberry plants, with the scale of the flooding immediately evident.

Neighbouring lettuce grower Derrylard Nurseries has also been hit by floods, The Belfast Telegraph reported, with owner Seamus Donnelly telling the paper that 70,000 lettuces in a polytunnel are under water.

'The floods here are as bad as I have seen them. We have about 12 acres of plants in polytunnels and some of them are completely under water,” Donnelly told the paper.

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