EU
Sinn Fein MEP Matt Carthy calls for a Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform process that goes beyond simplification.
MEPs have today voted for the EU to develop new risk and crisis management tools to help farmers to cope with volatile prices.
Agri-Business
No provision made for an emergency tillage fund in the EU’s draft budget for 2017
European CAP reform should help farmers invest in digital technology and equipment, according to CEMA President Richard Markwell.
Steps need to be taken to prevent farming crises caused by low market prices and high input costs from happening in the future, Copa outlined.
Commissioner Hogan has announced a further series of measures aimed at simplifying the CAP with a view to easing the burden on and making life easier for both farmers and national authorities.
EU farmers may well be asked to, at least, part fund future market support measures
The current mechanism of subsidising EU agriculture via grants and schemes could become a thing of the past.
Two leading UK politicians have promised that UK farmers will continue to receive farm subsidies until at least 2020.
N.Ireland
Minimising disruption to existing trade relationships between North and south and maintaining support to farmers are among the priorities the UFU has drawn up ahead of Brexit negotiations.
A high-ranking German politician has called into question the future of CAP payments from the EU.
Minister McIlveen says she won't reduce the Basic Payment Scheme to fund either Coupled Payments or an Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme.
While the announced simplification of the CAP measures is a step in the right direction - they are still inadequate, according to Sinn Fein MEP Matt Carthy.
Farmers who over-declare how much lands they own under the CAP are to receive a yellow card instead of being penalised twice the difference, the European Commissioner for Agriculture, Phil Hogan has said.
With a referendum on whether to leave the EU or not looming, the issue of Brexit was discussed at length at the Oxford Farming Conference.
Some 95% of payments to eligible applicants under the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) schemes were made to farmers in the North by the end of December.
CAP simplification is part of European Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan's overall strategy to streamline and reduce EU legislation wherever possible.
European Agriculture Commissioner, Phil Hogan would not confirm a date for a mid-term review of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
The re-introduction of coupled payments could be on the agenda as part of the upcoming review of the CAP
CAP simplification is a priority over the next five years for the EU Agricultural and Rural Development Commissioner Phil Hogan.
An Agri Aware campaign to communicate the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to the general public and farmers, across the island was recently launched by EU Agricultural Commissioner Phil Hogan.
The way is now clear for Brussels to introduce a raft of CAP simplification measures later this year, according to EU Commissioner for Agriculture Phil Hogan.
Rural Life
Agri Aware is to educate second level students about the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) at the Family Farm classroom in Dublin Zoo.
