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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 to farmers’ pockets, people must not leave herd number changes until the last minute, he stressed....

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 support to farmers, to encourage production of organic food. How do you qualify? n produce livestock an...

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 of the farm owner. The independent panel was established in 2001 with the aim of providing farmers ...