CAP
Barry Cassidy on 05 May 2021
54,500 farmers face payment wipe out
Convergence in the Department’s model has been set at 85% which is the most likely figure to be agreed when the new CAP package is signed off.
Barry Cassidy on 05 May 2021
Body blow for farm payments in next CAP
Modelling from the Department of Agriculture has detailed the effects that 85% convergence and eco-schemes will have on Irish payments.
Barry Cassidy on 05 May 2021
Fight to begin for Exchequer funds
The IFA wants the Irish Government to maximise the portion of money that it can put in to match EU funds for rural development schemes.
Barry Cassidy on 04 May 2021
Eco-schemes: storm brewing over absence of payment for public goods
The Commission believes that World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules make it impossible to pay farmers for public goods using eco-schemes.
Niall Hurson on 04 May 2021
All farmers must be treated equally under new CAP - ICSA
The ICSA has said that it is concerned that extra GAEC provisions will raise the bar for mandatory conditionality.
Barry Cassidy on 29 Apr 2021
ICSA hits out at exclusion of organic farmers from REAP
Farmers in existing agri-environmental schemes including GLAS and the Organic Scheme cannot join the REAP pilot.
Barry Cassidy on 29 Apr 2021
Farmers up in arms as peatlands rules threaten ‘ability to exist’
Minister McConalogue said there was no intention to introduce a standard in the next CAP that would prevent hill farmers farming their land.
Barry Cassidy on 28 Apr 2021
Eco-scheme rules threaten €300m of farmer money
International funding rules look set to scupper any plans to reward farmers for taking up additional environmental action in the next CAP.
Niall Hurson on 28 Apr 2021
Department to introduce ‘small-scale’ forestry scheme for farmers
The Department said this pilot would be scaled up for inclusion in the next CAP.
Matt Dempsey on 28 Apr 2021
Dempsey at Large: farmer frustrations at reforms
Farming policy - proposals are needed for a new appeals legislative process.
Barry Cassidy on 28 Apr 2021
Top MEP warns of payment limits on eco-schemes
An eco-scheme system that compensates and rewards farmers for environmental and climate action may breach agricultural subsidy rules.
Barry Cassidy on 28 Apr 2021
Strong views for and against convergence among TDs
Convergence was among the most hotly debated topics in the Dáil chamber on Thursday with TDs expressing opinions both for and against the policy.
Pat O'Toole on 28 Apr 2021
Ireland does not have a duty to feed the world – Tom Arnold
‘We’re going to have a core group of commercial farmers, around the dairy sector,’ the chair of the agri-food strategy 2030 tells Pat O’Toole.
Justin McCarthy on 28 Apr 2021
Editorial: immediate clarity needed on eco-schemes
The Government should be seeking immediate clarity on the European Commission's position in relation to eco-schemes.
Amy Forde on 27 Apr 2021
Pay farmers to cut herd size – Environmental Pillar
Compensatory measures should to be put in place to facilitate and incentivise herd reductions and diversification in the suckler and beef finishing sectors, according to the Environmental Pillar.
Barry Cassidy on 27 Apr 2021
Minister McConalogue holding out for lower eco-schemes CAP allocation
The European Council has offered to progressively increase the percentage of the CAP set aside for eco-schemes from 22% in 2023 to 25% in 2025.
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan on 26 Apr 2021
CAP neglected upland farmers - Cairns
The Social Democrats TD said that the matter of gorse fires needed to be addressed and Government policy and CAP has neglected upland farmers.
Barry Cassidy on 26 Apr 2021
CAP negotiator committed to full flattening of farm payments
Chair of the European Parliament’s agriculture committee Norbert Lins has said internal convergence must continue.
Siobhán Walsh on 26 Apr 2021
Convergence would not be accepted in the civil service - Murphy
Verona Murphy was speaking on a motion of Common Agriculture Policy Reform in Dáil Éireann on April 22.
Pat O'Toole on 25 Apr 2021
To fix the problem at the heart of farming, we have to name it
In this week's Irish Farmers Journal, Pat O'Toole outlined his disappointment with the draft agri-food strategy. Here, he follows up by outlining what he wants to see at its heart.