N.Ireland
DAERA urged to rethink method of farming grant delivery
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) is being urged to rethink their method of grant delivery and...
Subsidies
Schemes
Nature organisation blames CAP for 'biodiversity decline'
An environmental lobby group has called for Northern Ireland’s future agricultural subsidies to ditch the notion of rewarding intensive food...
N.Ireland
'Green' farm subsidies could include better housing and intact tail payments
Payments for intact tails and better housing could be made as part of new ‘green’ farm subsidies planned for the...
N.Ireland
UK subsidy changes could hit more than 1 in 5 farmers in first year
UK subsidy changes could “free up £150 million for the environment and other public goods”, a consultation launched today has...
N.Ireland
Resilience, welfare, environment and bureaucracy to take centre stage in future UK subsidy plans
Fewer inspections; maintaining soil quality, clean rivers and wildlife habitats; and farm open days are all likely to form part...
N.Ireland
Gove to speak on future farming subsidies at tomorrow's NFU conference
The UK’s Agriculture Secretary Michael Gove is expected to reveal more on his plans for post-Brexit agricultural policy at tomorrow’s...
N.Ireland
Department launches new online BPS entitlement register
A new online entitlement register service is now available on DAERA Online Services, which allows farmers or their agents to...
N.Ireland
Farmers suffering 'Brexit fatigue' as talks process hits critical stage
Ulster farmers are becoming sickened with Brexit talk, Ulster Farmers’ Union deputy president Ivor Ferguson told journalists at the UFU’s...
N.Ireland
'Northern Ireland's share of farm payments should be ring-fenced'
Ulster Unionist MEP Jim Nicholson has said he has “many concerns” surrounding the future of farm payments in Northern Ireland....
N.Ireland
Gove's Oxford Farming Conference remarks 'an insult to farmers'
Former Lib Dem leader Tim Farron has hit out at comments made today at the Oxford Farming Conference by UK...
Agri Politics
Exchange rate boost to add £13 million to North's farm subsidies
Northern Irish farmers will be better off this year, as exchange rate fluctuations add around 5% to the value of...
N.Ireland
Farmers in the North must assume the era of direct subsidies is ending
Farmers in Northern Ireland will have to brace themselves for a change regarding the way subsidies are made available to...
Dairy
Dairy farmers should scrap farm subsidies - New Zealand dairy leader
Subsidies have resulted in Irish dairy farmers propping-up other farmers around Europe who should be allowed to fail. That’s according...
