Farmers who fail to complete training requirements this year as part of GLAS 3 face the full clawback of GLAS money paid.

Some 53 out of the 48,818 farmers in the scheme have not yet undertaken their GLAS training.

These farmers have received no payment since 31 December 2018 and were not part of the €25m worth of balancing payments issued last week.

They have until 31 December 2019 or risk joining the 68 participants from GLAS 1 and 2 who failed to complete the required training and were excluded from the scheme.

A total of €268,000 was clawed back from these farmers, an average of almost €4,000 each.