Agri-Business
The highest number of 2022 Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) applications made by this year's deadline came from Co. Cork.
N.Ireland
According to Sinn Féin’s Declan McAleer, there is scope to draw down a £70m farm-support package from the Northern Ireland (NI) Executive.
A Co Armagh farmer believes that proposed changes in farm support for Northern Ireland will destroy the entire fabric of rural areas.
Opinion
Is it the case that farmers must accept the scenario that food prices will keep getting ever cheaper the shops?
Economists now believe that retail food prices will continue to decrease over the coming years, despite the cost pressures on farmers
A total of 96% farmers in the North have received their basic payment monies, the Minister for Agriculture Michelle McIlveen announced.
Payment of €12.4m to approximately 98,000 farmers has commenced today, the Minister for Agriculture, Michael Creed, has announced.
The Department has confirmed that, to date, 111,991 applications have been received for the 2016 Basic Payment Scheme (BPS).
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine opened the online facility for the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) on March 3, 2016.
