Sligo/Leitrim TD says thousands of young farmers will be bankrupt by 2020
A Sligo/Leitrim TD says thousands of young farmers will be bankrupt by 2020. The comments come from Fianna Fail TD, Eamon Scanlon speaking the Dail yesterday. in 2015, The Young Farmer Scheme was allocatted €25m, in 2016 there was no funds allocatted while for this year only €5m is allocated.…
Carthy: Rules change needed to help young farmers
The Sinn Fein MEP Matt Carthy says young farmers are facing unnecessary barriers when trying to access funds from the National Reserve Scheme. The €5m (five million euro) scheme is supposed to encourage young people into farming by making funds available to them provided they fulfil certain criteria. But Matt…