It was a good week for

  • Farmers in the Basic Payment Scheme, as 113,000 received a 70% advanced payment worth €732m in total.
  • Sheep farmers, as under the new EID tagging regime, factories will operate

    ">central points of recording and provide farmers with a full printout of the tag numbers of the animals supplied.

  • Kerry milk suppliers, as it is to open its third forward milk price scheme next week.
  • Farmers looking to grow sugar beet, as Beet Ireland announced it has completed the purchase of a site for a processing facility at Ballyburn, Co Kildare.

    • It was a bad week for

  • Young farmers, as a cap of €70,000 is to be applied collectively to three of the main Young Trained Farmer Reliefs as part of the finance bill that will go to the second stage of the Dáil next week.
  • Scotland, as it

    ">lost its BSE negligible risk status after a case of classical BSE was confirmed on-farm.

  • Farmers who had a land eligibility inspection in 2017, as it has emerged that 60% of farmers who had an inspection were penalised.
  • Potato growers, as the European Commission has banned a key spray used by growers, diquat.