Almost €1.9 million was issued in payments under the Targeted Agriculture Modernisation Schemes (TAMS 3) this week, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) confirmed.

TAMS 3 provides grants to farmers to build and/or improve a specified range of farm buildings and equipment on their holding through a range of different schemes.

The latest payments data from DAFM shows 49,044 approvals have been issued up to Friday (June 19), with 21,410 payment applications submitted and 18,636 total payments made.

Some €170.3 million has now been paid out to farmers under TAMS 3.

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54% of applications made under tranche 10 of TAMS 3 have been approved by department officials.

4,261 of the 7,905 applications submitted in this round have been given the green light. 1,040 applications are still be processed.

The department said that 5,301 applications have been selected under the ranking and selection process for tranche 10.

Due to the level of demand from farmers for TAMS 3, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Martin Heydon previously announced that ranking and selection would be applied because of "overall budgetary constraints".

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The latest payments data also shows €811,317 was paid this week through the Organic Farming Scheme (OFS).

€180,000 was paid to participants in the Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme (ACRES) bringing the total payments to €786.6 million.

€48,928 was issued this week under the 2025 Areas of Natural Constraint (ANC) and Areas of Specific Constraint (ASC).

98,236 farmers have now been paid a total of €247 million under the scheme.