GLAS balancing payments commencing this week
GLAS balancing payments for 2020 are commencing ahead of schedule this week. Minister for Agriculture, Charlie McConalogue made the announcement today that €26.6m will be made to 43,400 farmers who are participating in the scheme. 90% of participants have now been paid in full of their 2020 commitments. GLAS Tranche…
Farmers on GLAS scheme urged to ensure they are signed up for next year
The 48,000 farmers in GLAS will receive instructions this week on the procedures to follow to roll-over their participation in the agri-environment scheme. Letters have already been sent to participating farmers which set out the actions to follow to ensure that participants can remain in the scheme which is worth…
IFA call to extend GLAS contracts
The IFA is calling on the Minister for Agriculture Dara Calleary to start the process of extending GLAS contracts to 36,000 farmers who are due to finish their five-year plans at the end of December. IFA Rural Development Chairman Michael Biggins said it would be totally unacceptable for farmers to…
Government need to support eco-friendly farmers – McConalogue
A Donegal Fianna Fail TD says the Government’s got to support farmers with eco-friendly farms. The party’s Agriculture spokesperson, Charlie McConalogue says 2,000 Irish farmers have been frozen-out of the latest initiative to support greener farming. Deputy McConalogue is calling on the Agriculture Minister to re-open the ‘GLAS scheme’ –…
Varadkar: Farmers chose to be in Glas and get paid to honour the deadlines
The Taoiseach says the date for cutting hay under the Glas scheme won’t be brought forward. The date is set at the first of July, next Sunday but in the Dail this week rural TDs from all areas called for the date to be brought forward in case the weather…
Upto 6,000 farmers still waiting on final GLAS payments for 2017
Upto 6,000 farmers on the GLAS commonage payments are still waiting to be paid their final 15% from 2017. Their are currently around 9,000 commange farmers in GLAS on upwards of 4,000 commonages, however, upto 6,000 farmers are still waiting for their final payments of last year. The IFA Hill…
IFA says delays in GLAS payments ‘a major issue’ for many farmers
Delays in GLAS payments are a major issue for many farmers. Farmers in difficulty because of late payments may gt help from the IFA Payments Unit It has dealt with nearly 800 cases since last September. IFA Deputy President Richard Kennedy said the Payments Unit was established to assist and…