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Home Farm: inducements and penalties
Matt Dempsey
The Biss payment has been reduced very significantly already under the Cap reform so the last thing we need is a unnecessary further deduction.
9 December 2024 News
700 new farmers accepted into the Organic Farming Scheme
All eligible applicants have been accepted in to the Organic Farming Scheme.
2 December 2024 News
Balancing payments for BISS, CRISS and CISYF announced
Outgoing Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue confirmed the commencement, which will bring the total paid under the 2024 scheme to €807m.
Home Farm: Sowing the last of the autumn crops
While this autumn has been a huge improvement in being able to get crops established, it had been an expensive summer.
23 October 2024 Viewpoints
Cashflow fears may be confirmed this week
The massive cash injection that BISS payments represent was never more needed, by farmers and by the people they trade with and owe money to.
16 October 2024 Dealer
Advance BISS payments being issued from Wednesday
Advance payments are commencing from Wednesday 16 October at a rate of 70%.
16 October 2024 News
Concern over Department policy on CAP payments
There are mounting fears the Department is reverting to a stricter interpretation of the rules around direct payments, the INHFA stated.
9 October 2024 Schemes
Editorial: prudent spending visible at Ploughing
Prudent spending applies to farmers just as much as it applies to Minister for Finance Jack Chambers.
18 September 2024 Viewpoints
Farmer Writes: weekends aren't what they used to be
A chance log in to his agfood was a bit of a wake up call last weekend.
18 September 2024 Farmer Writes
ACRES payment shambles worsens
The Department of Agriculture has said mapping discrepancies, issues with scorecards, scheme contract changes and outstanding BISS queries are to blame for the delays to the balancing payments.
11 September 2024 Schemes
Opinion: livestock plus tillage farming can work but not within average farms
Specialisation is needed for survival in modern farming, so synergies must be between farms, not within them.
10 August 2024 Opinion
Dempsey at Large: forward thinking or backtracking?
For the last few years, the straw incorporation scheme worked well from a farmer's point of view.
24 July 2024 Viewpoints