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David Wright assesses the payments made to farmers on either side of the Irish border
Commission president Ursula von der Leyen will consider the report and respond within the first 100 days of new commission.
There are so many canaries indicating the plight of cattle farming they could form a dawn chorus, if they weren’t being starved of oxygen.
The average farmer received just over €430/ha in scheme payments over 2023, Teagasc's National Farm Survey found.
In 2023, the gross margin was down 8% to €797/ha while direct payments were worth €266/ha on sheep farms.
In 2023, about half of farmers in the sector undertook the Straw Incorporation Measure, and received an average payment of over €5,500.
The announcement of the ANC advance payments will once again be a feature of the Ploughing Championships.
The timelines for all schemes are not exact but provide an approximate time frame of when farmers can expect to receive payment
Close to 62,000t of fertiliser was imported up to last week by 35 Fertiliser Economic Operators.
