Fodder Support Scheme 2022

Just read on agriland a new fodder support scheme for 2023 has been launched. I just applied now on agfood to enter the scheme and it's the same amount you claimed in 2022. You have to have submitted an application in 2022 to be eligible. Initial payment to be paid out in December 2022.

Just done now, thanks.

You can claim for 2023 now, most of next years payment is going to be paid in December this year and the balance next year. You apply now and give the area your claiming on next summer, that’s my understanding of it anyway.

so if you put in say 10 hectares for 2022 and then next year you only cut 5 hectares you’ll have to pay pack 500 for 2023 ? Bit of a messy scheme in ways .. but hey it’s money that’s needed .

The 2023 Fodder Support Scheme (FSS) was launched on Wednesday by Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue. The application process has also opened and will remain open for just shy of five weeks, closing at midnight on Monday 5 December 2022.

The automatic reaction from farmers interested in applying is that they are not in a position to submit an accurate figure on the area of ground on which they plan to cut silage or hay on in 2023.

This estimate is not required at the time of application, with the 2023 scheme based on the area submitted in 2022. Farmers cannot amend this area when applying now but they will have an opportunity in a period from May to July 2023 to amend the area they wish to submit for payment.

The reasoning for the application process opening at present is that the Department plans to pay 50% of the payment under the 2023 scheme before the end of December 2022 – essentially an advance payment will be made before the action is completed. The remainder of the payment under the scheme will be paid in quarter four of 2023.

This is separate to payments under the 2022 scheme, which will also be paid in November /December 2022

Applied for the 2023 FSS there, it seems a strange idea to be paying out money in 2022 for a 2023 scheme but sure I will take what ever I can get, anyway I assume most people cut the same amount of ground every year.

I honestly don't know, it says that the scheme will be reopening in May 2023 to allow you adjust the area claimed so maybe you will be able to apply then, it seems a bit unfair that anyone who didn't apply in 2022 can't apply for 2023

Its based to buy fertiliser for the upcoming silage season 2023, from January onwards like lots do.

If anything, this year's money shouldve been paid earlier to help people buy fertiliser to grow crops over last summer.

Probably too, that there is surplus money in the pot that has to be spent before year end.

To use as a boot against you that you can't afford to keep those livestock. Then the conditions will change and stock numbers must be reduced to receive the payment and then fertiliser use must be reduced because it's now a species rich grassland and now it can never be tilled or ploughed.

Don't mind me I'm too cynical and joking here.

But by doubling it up in the same year with record stock prices there's a very good chance they'll get it back in income tax.

Nothing showing here yet, I did have send in receipts so probably still being processed.

In amounts due now. Only this year's payment. None of next years showing.

Nothing here either 😭