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Forgotten farmers

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  • #2
    White Clover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,765 ✭✭✭White Clover


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    https://www.independent.ie/business/farming/news/farming-news/minister-commits-to-forgotten-farmers-in-new-cap-40096344.html

    May be good news for us old young farmers.

    We'll be in for a nice back payment too!


  • #3
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,044 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    White Clover wrote: »
    We'll be in for a nice back payment too!

    You have to hand back the 15k installation aid to qualify.


  • #4
    JohnChadwick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 336 ✭✭JohnChadwick


    Does "set up prior to 2008", exclude those who set up in 2008?


  • #5
    mayota
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭mayota


    Say my name wrote: »
    You have to hand back the 15k installation aid to qualify.

    I thought the forgotten farmers were those who missed out on both the installation aid and entry to the NR/YFS?


  • #6
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,044 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    mayota wrote: »
    I thought the forgotten farmers were those who missed out on both the installation aid and entry to the NR/YFS?

    Seemingly not according to this article and from the minister.
    Installation aid was suspended/finished in Oct 2008.

    This article claims it for those who started farming before 2008.

    Strange oul world!


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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    When the YFS came out there was a cut off, if you had started farming more than 5 years previous you wouldn't be considered.

    I had set up more than 5 years previous so no YFS for me.

    No instalation aid either.


  • #8
    Hard Knocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,146 ✭✭✭Hard Knocks


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    When the YFS came out there was a cut off, if you had started farming more than 5 years previous you wouldn't be considered.

    I had set up more than 5 years previous so no YFS for me.

    No instalation aid either.

    I’m in the same boat as you


  • #9
    Hard Knocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,146 ✭✭✭Hard Knocks


    Say my name wrote: »
    You have to hand back the 15k installation aid to qualify.

    I didn’t get the aid, but wasn’t it 10k?


  • #10
    Dinzee Conlee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,150 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    Hard Knocks wrote: »
    I didn’t get the aid, but wasn’t it 10k?

    No, I think it was 15k...

    *I think* it was 9k for a while, then 15k, then it went...


  • #11
    k mac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 659 ✭✭✭k mac


    As well as being under 40 in 2015 would you have to have the green cert?


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  • #12
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    k mac wrote: »
    As well as being under 40 in 2015 would you have to have the green cert?

    I think that would be unreasonable. A lot, including myself, would only have suffered the Green Cert to get into the scheme. No scheme, SFA reason to do the GC.

    Probably have to do it with any modified scheme.


  • #13
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    A rush of optimism on my part, the thought struck me, I'm now over 40.............. Will a new scheme include us old farts.


  • #14
    amacca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,201 ✭✭✭amacca


    Anyone have any update on this?

    I presume its fire ahead with BPS/SFP application as normal and maybe somethign might happen on this retrosepctively

    big maybe I know.


  • #15
    wrangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,333 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    amacca wrote: »
    Anyone have any update on this?

    I presume its fire ahead with BPS/SFP application as normal and maybe somethign might happen on this retrosepctively

    big maybe I know.

    He's referring to the new CAP which doesn't come start till the end of next year, there'll be big changes then


  • #16
    JohnChadwick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 336 ✭✭JohnChadwick


    amacca wrote: »
    Anyone have any update on this?

    I presume its fire ahead with BPS/SFP application as normal and maybe somethign might happen on this retrosepctively

    big maybe I know.

    Applying for the BPS at the moment and there's still no provision in the national reserve young farmer scheme section for forgotten farmers. Emailed the department and the comment below was part of the response. Still some hope there for it, but not until next cap comes into play.

    "The Programme for Government ‘Our Shared Future’ contains a commitment to seek to resolve, under the next CAP, the issue of support for the category of farmers known as Forgotten Farmers."


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