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  Some 630 farm partnerships are waiting to be paid their 2020 Beef Data and Genomics Programme (BDGP) payment. Payments to farmers who submitted partnership applications to the scheme are “being processed as a matter of priority”, a spokesperson for the Department of Agriculture told the Irish Farmers Journal. Payments under the BDGP began on 14 December last and €38m has been issued to over 21,000 farmers to date. Further payment runs will issue as applicants continue to satisfy the compliance requirements, the Department spokesperson said. Rollover of BDGP Of the 52% of farmers in...

SHARING OPTIONS: The scheme requirements for 2021 BDGP I participants are equivalent to 2020, with breeding female targets remaining unchanges. The majority of farmers concerned have availed of the option to extend their Green low-Carbon Agri-Environmental Scheme (GLAS) and Organic Farming Scheme (OFS) contracts for 2021. Figures released on Tuesday by Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue TD, show that 98% of GLAS I and II participants responded by the deadline of 31 December 2020 and within this, some 98% applied to contin...

December 17, 2020 11:34 am The Council of the EU, which brings together the government ministers from each member state, has formally adopted a budget – the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) – for 2021 to 2027. The €1.07 trillion budget will be bolstered by the ‘Next Generation EU’ recovery instrument, which adds €750 billion to the monies to be allocated over the coming years. It brings to €1.8 trillion the funding that will be provided over the lifetime of the MFF, which is partially aimed at economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. As part of the MFF (not including N...

  The Beef Data and Genomics Programme (BDGP) will be fully funded in 2021, with the programme requirements similar to the 2020 targets. Under the new terms and conditions of the 2021 scheme, farmers will have to continue to meet the required targets as set out in the previous BDGP scheme. These targets will include having a genotyped four- or five-star stock bull and meeting the target of having 50% of females in the herd genotyped four- or five-star on the replacement index. Farmers who failed to meet scheme targets in 2019/2020 will not be eligible to apply for the 2021 scheme. Letters...

December 14, 2020 5:07 pm Payments under the 2020 Beef Data and Genomics Programme (BDGP) have commenced, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue has confirmed. Announcing the news today (Monday, December 14), the minister said: “I am delighted that payments have commenced for the sixth year of this innovative programme, which is a key part of our overall commitment to support sustainable suckler beef production while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The BDGP has also introduced genetic technology into the national herd thus improving farm profitability. Payments...