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Scheme payments update: €1.3m paid under BISS and CRISS
Darren Carty
There were payments of €290,000 under the 2024 Areas of Natural Constraint, with small sums also paid out under the Protein Aid Scheme and the Tillage Incentive Scheme.
5 February 2025 Northern Ireland
DAERA legislate for new farm payments
A new area based payment scheme in NI is due to come into force later in 2025.
15 January 2025 Husbandry
Tillage Management: varieties and moving slurry
The slurry-spreading season has started again, but you should only take slurry in where conditions are suitable to do so.
Drainage rules to tighten for 35,000 farmers
The tighter restrictions will apply from this year on over 540,000ha of farmed peatlands and wetlands in the midlands and west.
15 January 2025 News
Discontent among farmers about future payments
Reports suggest a small number of farmers have decided to walk away from the BPS regime.
1 January 2025 Northern Ireland
Dempsey at Large: Variable incomes
The original CAP, with its guaranteed intervention prices and export refunds, was designed to prevent severe fluctuations.
1 January 2025 Viewpoints
€85m Eco Scheme payments concludes pillar I payments
Balancing payments have now been made across the BISS, CRISS and Eco Scheme with payments under the young farmers scheme and national reserve also commencing recently.
11 December 2024 Schemes
Straw Incorporation Measure payments begin to issue
Payments under the Straw Incorporation Measure will be visible in farmers’ bank accounts in the coming days.
11 December 2024 News
Straw Incorporation Measure payments begin to issue
Payments under the Straw Incorporation Measure will be visible in farmers’ bank accounts in the coming days.
11 December 2024 News
Farmer-focused CAP post-2027 approved in Brussels
EU agriculture ministers are pushing to maintain a separate and independent CAP containing two pillars post-2027.
9 December 2024 News
€270m paid under BISS/CRISS and €241m in ANC
Payments worth €31m also began this week under the Complementary Income Support for Young Farmers scheme.
4 December 2024 Schemes
€241m payments under ANC scheme commence
The payments were confirmed by Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue, which will affect 96,731 farmers in the ANC scheme.
4 December 2024 News