New CAP

Perhaps not a better media operation ,rather we are the carbon climate change whipping boys at the moment and that won't change for a while .Amazing to think that people are so removed from reality that food production ie the single most important thing humans need along with heat and shelter , is reduced to competing with data centers ,importation of tat from China (guilty as charged ) and numerous other activities to get off the naughty step .

350 feet over sea level here so a lot of wet nights before the water is lapping at my front door /field gate .

Designation of land etc I don't think will ever affect me here as its a mainly tillage area around here .

Protesting /striking is easy if everyone involved wants the same end result .For example if a factory staff go on strike for a 10% payrise then a win will see everyone's wages increase by whatever is finally agreed .

Farmer tractor protest in Dublin had about 40 different disparate groups looking for 40 different things ,some contradictory to others on the same protest .Same with beef factory blockade ;every man had a different end result in mind that would suit them all whilst others needed cattle killed at the same time .

Most protests are a waste of time ;just a safety valve to let off steam and politicians know this .Farmers are unable to withdraw labour or withhold produce so how can we protest like other sectors ? Plus each farmer is competing (often in his own mind only ) with other farmers so a lose lose situation .

That would have made more sense id have thought.

The journal online had a bps calculator today, had to put in this year's payment and area farmed and it showed how you would far out in 2023. Might be of use to someone.

I am at present about 300/HA. I have 27HA in total but only 25 going into area aid. From 2023 it all will go into AA. I will get Eco scheme on it all and Criss top up on my 27HA payment I expect a small reduction. I would like if you got new entitlement with you previous payment spread over your larger area however that will not happen from what I understand. I will also get ANC on total HA.

Another advantage is around the ring larger payments will not have as much influence. I hope as well to increase my environment payment last time I was at only 1.7k I like to double that at least.

It worked out much as I predicted 5+, years ago so not overly surprised. Did not expect the convergence to be as high and with eco payment and CRISS it is actually 90%+ convergence.

Capital and lease value of payments will collapse as eco is decoupled from it. New payment per HA accross the country will be in the 150-200/ha average by 2026 with an eco payment of 65-80/HA and Criss of 43 on first 30HA.

There will be very little change from one year to the next. Unless you can see multiple years you cannot see the way payments are going

Link to farmers journal calculato? I can’t see it on their site

Here it is - https://www.farmersjournal.ie/calculate-your-2023-basic-payment-now-656462

They ate making a few incorrect assumptions. They are not allowing for area on farm that was ineligible for payments this is now entitled to eco. They are assuming that eco will be only 63 euro. This is more like to be in the he 75-80 euro range.

With capping at 6OishK some intensive farmers with payments of 70-100 k may decide to forego eco payment if there limit can be applied to BLISS part only. There will be farmers that will have no interest in our eco as well.