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April 14, 2021 5:02 pm The direction of the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has the “potential to destroy farm viability in Ireland”, the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has claimed. Addressing the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture today (Wednesday, April 14), IFA president Tim Cullinan warned the focus of the CAP reform “has the potential to destroy farm viability” in this country, adding:  “At present, Teagasc has identified that only a third of farmers in...

SHARING OPTIONS: Minister Poots is keen to introduce coupled payments for the suckler and sheep sectors. \ Philip Doyle There will be no radical change to farm support schemes in NI within a short timeframe, DAERA Minister Edwin Poots has said. “Proper consultation is vital and as such, new schemes take time to develop and implement,” the minister told Stormont’s agriculture committee last Thursday. During the briefing with MLAs, Minister Poots reiter...

Don’t leave BPS application until the last minute - advice for farmers! Reporter: );  ); The Basic Payment deadline is May 17. Philip O’Connor, Head of Farm Support at ifac, advises farmers not to leave the application until the last minute. The 17th of May is one of the most important dates in the farming year - the deadline for declaring the land you are farming in the year 2021 and therefore receive your Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) monies in October/December. BPS is crucial to the finan...

Q My wife and I have been farming since we got married almost 10 years ago. We have three young children and at present we are scraping by on the small income the farm is making. We are facing the reality that it is not practical for my wife to return to work off-farm as the childcare costs would wipe out any income she would make. I keep hearing about the economy improving but we are finding the reality is very different, waiting for the Basic Payment Scheme cheque to meet our debts and bills....

© Tim Scrivener Efforts to move agricultural support in a more sustainable direction appear to be faltering, say conservation groups, with farmers set to be paid for what are already regulatory requirements. Commenting on Defra’s new Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) pilot scheme – details of which were released yesterday – Ellie Brodie, Wildlife Trusts head of land management, said the government appeared to be losing its environmental ambition. “We will be...

March 9, 2021 8:59 am Herd number applications have a major impact on schemes farmers are in – and as such, planning in advance is essential, according to Teagasc. Andy Ryder, a drystock advisor based at Teagasc Westport, recently explained the impact herd number applications and changes can have on schemes such as the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS), Areas of Natural Constraint (ANC), Green Low-Carbon Agri-Environment Scheme (GLAS) and forestry schemes. With these schemes making a big difference ...

Annual submission of a BPS application is mandatory in new Organic Farming Scheme The Scheme reopened last Monday... Bedding materials, preferably organic, must be provided. If 50% of the floor area is bedded, up to 50% of the floor area may be slatted. File Picture.   Thu, 04 Mar, 2021 - 17:00 Stephen Cadogan Minister of state Senator Pippa Hackett this week reopened the Organic Farming Scheme for new applications from farmers. What is the Organic Farming Scheme? It provides financial suppo...

Is it the case that farmers must accept the scenario that food prices will keep getting ever cheaper the shops?

Three-quarters of tenant farmers say they might apply to the BPS Lump Sum Scheme as part of the government's post-Brexit agricultural transition plan.

It comes amid calls for an independent panel to have the final say on claims. Greyabbey case DAERA’s two-stage ‘review of decisions’ process became the subject of controversy after a Co. Down farm owner was refused Basic Payment on the grounds the department had not deemed him an ‘active farmer’. An independent panel took the opposite stance. However, that decision was overruled by the department. The case was then taken forward for Judicial Review, where a judge then ruled in favour ...