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May 7, 2021 9:18 am The Irish Natura and Hill Farmers’ Association (INHFA) has condemned a recent document released by the Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine (DAFM) on modelling future Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) payments. INHFA president Colm O’Donnell said: “This totally misrepresents the reality that over 72,000 farmers representing almost 60% of all farmers, stand to gain under 100% convergence or full flattening. “Of these, over half would also gain substantially under the 85% convergence model which the DAFM [has] based this document around.” DAFM modelling on ...

AS fears continue to grow over the potential introduction of a regulation that could exclude thousands of farmers from getting their CAP payments, Colm O’Donnell, president of the Irish Natura and Hill Farmers Association (INHFA) ,has penned an open letter to Agriculture Minister Charlie McConalogue. Signed by Colm O’Donnell on behalf of the INHFA, it reads: Dear Minister McConalogue, Advertisement As President of the Irish Natura and Hill Farmers Association (INHFA), I am writing to you on behalf of farmers that operate on carbon-rich soils ie our farmed wetlands and peatlands. Under pro...

SHARING OPTIONS: Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition (GAEC) 2 requires the imposition of management practises that protect carbon-rich soils. Farmers on peatlands and wetlands are up in arms over plans to impose new rules in the next CAP which they believe threaten farmers’ “ability to exist” on these lands. In a letter sent to Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue, the Irish Natura and Hill Farmers Association (INHFA) has demanded a change to draft legislation to allay farmers’ fears. A new Good Agricultural and Environmental C...

‘Huge disappointment’ for farmers as details of REAP revealed Reporter:  '); Farming organisations have said they are stunned and disappointed by the details of the Results-Based Environment Agri Pilot Programme (REAP) while others have described the pilot as a “damp squib”. Speaking after a meeting with the Department of Agriculture last week, IFA rural development chairperson, Michael Biggins said the details of REAP are a “damp squib”. He said that after the all the hype, the Department confirmed that the budget for the new scheme for 2021 will only be €10m, out of the �...

April 16, 2021 12:47 pm The proposed move under the new Results-based Environmental-Agri pilot Project (REAP) to exclude commonage and land containing heather “stunned” the Irish Natura and Hill Farmers Association (INHFA), which said such a move “confirmed its worst fears”. This follows a presentation made by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine to the farm organisations yesterday (Thursday, April 15), which was met with dismay from some groups. Speaking today, INHFA president Colm O’Donnell outlined his dismay on the exclusion of these lands, which are “predominate...