June 3, 2021 5:36 pm
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine is being called on to ensure that all applications currently in the system for the Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (TAMS) are included in the department’s costing review of the scheme.
At a Charter of Rights meeting today (Thursday, June 3) with department officials, representatives of the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) called for the review to be completed “without any further delay” and that it must “include all TAMS applications currently in the system where the work or purchase of equipment has not started”.
The department officials confirmed that the TAMS costing review is due to be completed in the coming days.
May 31, 2021 10:59 am
Farmers are being reminded that the closing date by which you can choose to defer your reduction period under the Beef Exceptional Aid Measure (BEAM) is approaching.
BEAM participants have until June 21, to change their reduction period for bovine manure nitrogen to January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021.
The ordinary reduction period is July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021. However, as a result of the Covid-19 impact on some farmers in meeting their 5% nitrates reduction requirement, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) wrote to the European Commission in January 2021 seeking an extension of the reduction period.
The department opened the facility to change the reduction period on March 19. The deferral is an option for farmers, and you can still stick with the original reduction period if you are on-course to meet it.