Opinion
It’s time we put an end to the leasing of entitlements
The fact that landowners can lease out their entitlements is a symptom of everything that’s wrong with the current Common...
Opinion
The fact that landowners can lease out their entitlements is a symptom of everything that’s wrong with the current Common...
CAP / Schemes
As the deadline for trading entitlements draws closer, Owen O’Driscoll – of O’Driscoll & Associates Agricultural Consultants – estimates that...
CAP / Schemes
The family farm must be protected by ensuring it is ring-fenced from any cuts in the new Common Agricultural Policy...
Opinion
The fact that Phil Hogan, Europe’s Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, believes that a proposed 5% cut in the...
Opinion
We now have a pretty good idea of what sort of budget the EU will allocate for the next Common...
CAP / Schemes
Initiatives to improve farm safety may be included as mandatory measures in Pillar 11 in the upcoming CAP reform proposals,...
CAP / Schemes
“Not for the first time” farmers throughout the EU will look on the French Government as their defenders and the...
CAP / Schemes
The European Court of Auditors is conducting an audit of risk and crisis management tools under the Common Agricultural Policy...
CAP / Schemes
European young farmers have reacted with disappointment to the announcement of the European Commission’s budget proposal for the period 2021-2027....
CAP / Schemes
The European Commission today published a draft legislative proposal for the EU’s seven-year multiannual budget (2021-2027). It proposes an overall...
CAP / Schemes
Irish farm organisations have given their reaction to the news today that the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is set to...
CAP / Schemes
Today proposals surrounding the EU’s multi-annual financial framework (MFF) for the seven-year period – 2021 to 2027 – were unveiled...
Agri Politics
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is being reduced by 5% under proposals presented by Gunther Oettinger, the European Commissioner for Budget...
Agri-Business
Ireland must defend agricultural subsidies and limit increases in Irish contributions as the European Union’s next long-range budget plan takes...
CAP / Schemes
An environmental lobby group has called for Northern Ireland’s future agricultural subsidies to ditch the notion of rewarding intensive food...
Opinion
The total uncertainty over the next Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) budget is a boil that must be lanced with immediate...
CAP / Schemes
The deficit that will be left in the European budget as a result of Brexit will mean that an increase...
CAP / Schemes
Entitlement and reference years have been deemed “barriers to entry” for young farmers, according to the EU Commissioner for Agriculture and...