The Farming Week: Eco-scheme advance payments, suckler-bred cattle shortage and €11/ac tillage support ‘warrants a slap’
November 3, 2023 9:51 am
Louise Hickey, Aisling O’Brien, Charles O’Donnell and Breifne O’Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week includes:
- Eco-scheme advance payments worth €184m commence;
- Liming, soil sampling and farm safety scheme deadlines extended as Organic Farming Scheme opens;
- Farmyard manure allowed to be kept on farm over closed period;
- TD tells minister €11/ac in tillage supports ‘warrants a slap’;
- Shortage of suckler-bred cattle;
- The cost of finishing winter cattle.
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