An updated report on the impact of the weather on farming by Teagasc makes bleak reading.
There are considerable variations between the drier and wetland areas in winter feed supplies, animal performance and damage to soil.
The cereal harvest, it said, has been badly hit with heavy yield losses on the major cereal crops down to one tonne per hectare.
The recent improvement in the weather has come too late, Teagasc said, for soft fruit, apple and nursery stock production this year.
However, some vegetable growers will benefit.
Grass growth rates have improved on dry soils. But they are only 50-70 per cent of normal in heavier wet soils, which have been damaged on heavily stocked farms.
Grass remains scarce on these farms.
The first cut of silage has been saved on dry farms. But there is a deficit of between 40-80 per cent on wetland areas.
However, the quality of silage harvested is lower and the second crop, half the full harvest, was predicted to be well down on average.
Milk yields are down, particularly in wetland areas and farmers are still feeding supplements.
In the worst hit areas, some dairy farmers are still forced to house cows part-time.
Animal performance on beef farms was down by 25 per cent and depending on the area, somewhere between 5-70 per cent of farmers are having to give rations to cattle.
Teagasc, which carried out the report for the Department of Agriculture, predicted a shortage of winter fodder but said it was too early to quantify this yet.