To date, €8.5m (out of €20m) has issued to 13,200 participants in year two of the Knowledge Transfer (KT) scheme. Initial payment runs issued to participants across beef, sheep, tillage, equine and poultry sectors. Payments to dairy farmers are currently in progress.

A total of 30 participants are still waiting on their year one KT payment. Some €12.5m has issued to 19,070 farmers in total. While 20,252 were approved to participate for year one, just over 1,150 dropped out by the end of the year.