Five per cent of farmers accepted into GLAS tranche one will be inspected.
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Inspections for farmers who were accepted into the first tranche of the Green Low-carbon Agri-environment Scheme (GLAS I) in 2015 have started.
The Department must inspect 5% of the farms that applied. This means that 1,350 farmers will be inspected before mid-May.
The key actions that farmers have to comply with are to fence off any parcels that were spilt for area-based actions such as low-input permanent pasture or traditional hay meadows. The fence has to have permanent stakes and to be “fit for purpose”.
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Farmers who selected low-emission slurry spreading had to be using it since the opening of the slurry spreading zone in their area.
The next major deadline is 31 March when farmers have to have installed their bird, bat and bee boxes.
Watercourses have also to be fenced off by that date. There have been calls for the 31 March deadline to be extended in areas where land is flooded or saturated. The Department is likely to only consider this closer to the time.
The 85% partial payments are due to go out before the end of the month for the remaining GLAS tranche one farmers that were not paid by the end of 2016. The final payment will go out in April/May. Of the 38,000 farmers in the scheme, it has emerged that over 6,000 commonage farmers have now joined GLAS. They are spread across 3,300 of the commonages in Ireland.
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Inspections for farmers who were accepted into the first tranche of the Green Low-carbon Agri-environment Scheme (GLAS I) in 2015 have started.
The Department must inspect 5% of the farms that applied. This means that 1,350 farmers will be inspected before mid-May.
The key actions that farmers have to comply with are to fence off any parcels that were spilt for area-based actions such as low-input permanent pasture or traditional hay meadows. The fence has to have permanent stakes and to be “fit for purpose”.
Farmers who selected low-emission slurry spreading had to be using it since the opening of the slurry spreading zone in their area.
The next major deadline is 31 March when farmers have to have installed their bird, bat and bee boxes.
Watercourses have also to be fenced off by that date. There have been calls for the 31 March deadline to be extended in areas where land is flooded or saturated. The Department is likely to only consider this closer to the time.
The 85% partial payments are due to go out before the end of the month for the remaining GLAS tranche one farmers that were not paid by the end of 2016. The final payment will go out in April/May. Of the 38,000 farmers in the scheme, it has emerged that over 6,000 commonage farmers have now joined GLAS. They are spread across 3,300 of the commonages in Ireland.
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