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Teagasc, the semi-state agricultural research and education body, receives a combined direct payment of over €500,000 across its farms, making it one of the largest recipients in Ireland.
For the 2019 financial year, which accounts for direct payments made in 2018, Teagasc received payments for 11 farms ranging between €11,894 for its organic herd in Galway and €108,521 for Teagasc Grange.
Farms associated with meat factories were also among the highest recipients.
Braganstown Farms Ltd and Glydee Farms Ltd in Co Louth, farms in which Larry Goodman and members of his family are directors, received combined payments just shy of €400,000.
The Kepak Group received direct payments totalling over €275,000. Kepak Farm in Co Meath received €155,772, while Athleague Meats and Clonee Meats, two companies registered to Kepak’s headquarters in Clonee, had payments of €61,719 and €57,676, respectively.
In Waterford, John and Peter Queally, the brothers who founded Dawn Meats, received €185,729. The highest individual direct payment went to O’Shea Farms Unlimited Company in Co Kilkenny. The horticulture and tillage farm received €226,440.
The next largest payment went to Godolphin Ireland UC in Co Kildare. It is the thoroughbred racing and breeding operation of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the vice-president and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates.
The stud farm received a payment of €216,768, an increase of €16,237 compared to its payment in 2017.
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