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A key feature of the CAP post 2020 proposals is the increased environmental ambition. EU Agriculture Ministers agreed a Council General Approach on the CAP proposals at the end of last year. At the core of this agreement, which demonstrates the higher levels of climate ambition, are the new Eco-Schemes under Pillar I. Countries will design Eco-Schemes based on their own analysis of priorities and the schemes will include precision farming, agro-forestry, and organic farming. Farmers will be abl...

IFA president Tim Cullinan. \ Philip Doyle The new CAP has the potential to cut every farmers’ Basic Payment by 30%, IFA president Tim Cullinan has said. In his speech at the 66th IFA AGM on Thursday via online video call, he told An Taoiseach Micheál Martin that the eco schemes are of concern to the IFA. “As this is being framed at the moment, it has the potential to take 30% out of farmer’s incomes, out of pillar one, which is the direct payment that farmers get every year. Commitment ...

Amid all the major challenges at the start of 2021, it is the lingering impact of Brexit which will have the longer-term impact on East Anglia's farmers, writes Simon Evans of Arnolds Keys - Irelands Agricultural

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Farmers in the Shannonside region received 236 million euro in farming supports from September to December last year. Figures published by the Department of Agriculture today show a total of 1.7 billion euro was paid out nationally across 10 schemes in the last four months of 2020. Cork received the highest allocation nationwide at almost […]

Agriculture is a devolved matter in the UK. \ Phill Doyle. Farm support schemes across the four regions of the UK are heading in opposite directions, delegates at an online Oxford Farming Conference were told on Thursday. Agriculture is a devolved matter in the UK, so it is up to ministers in devolved governments to set policies that will replace the EU’s Basic Payment Scheme in each region. The four ministers who are responsible for agriculture across the UK spoke at the online Oxford Farmin...

TOP TEAM Messrs Adam, Kennedy and McCornick outside the Scottish Parliament It looked like red diesel was in the sights of the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, as he scrambled to pull together the first Budget since the Conservatives’ resounding General Election win – and the shock resignation of his predecessor, Sajid Javid. In a series of policy leaks ahead of the Budget it was suggested that Mr Sunak, faced with both the need to raise revenue to pay for Boris Johnson’s i...

December 17, 2020 6:15 pm Northern Ireland’s Department of Agriculture has announced plans to launch a pilot payment scheme for local growers to produce protein crops for livestock consumption. The pilot scheme, which is planned to begin next year, will offer growers £330/ha with eligible crops including peas, beans and sweet lupins. The rate will result in a margin for protein crops comparable to that for other cereal crops. The maximum total area to be included in the pilot will be 1000 h...

Farm incomes down for arable and horticulture, Defra says 17 December 2020 | The report provides detailed information on the financial position of farm businesses Defra has released its analysis of farm business income in England in the year 2019-20, showing income is down for arable and horticulture, but up for livestock sectors. The report, published on Wednesday (16 December), provides survey results covering the 2019 harvest and that years Basic Payment. It shows that average income was lo...

An overwhelming majority of eligible Welsh farm businesses received their Basic Payment in the first week of the payment window. More than 94.6% of Welsh