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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 able to access the Eco-Scheme funds by undertaking additional actions and practices that go beyond exis...

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 sought “I would like if we could get a commitment from you today that you will do everything in yo...

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 […]