New grant for lime

More schemes to find out where the peat soil is..🤣

Lime to west Cork was 23 per ton last Sept.... Now 30 per ton.... As usual anything grant aided just shoots up in price 🙄🙄

Because the dept already have their soil sample reports and it's already part of the dero to spread lime.

But the main reason is the soil samples. The 8m will go further without them in it.

Plus we've the weakest farm lobby to confront the dept since the foundation of the state. The lobby are a bag of cats pulling on each other with the dept grinning.

General principle is that they don't give grants for something that you are already obliged to have in place.

Occasionally they can deviate from this. One example was that when they brought people under mandatory LESS a few years ago, there was a years grace period under which you could still apply for equipment under TAMS

I suspect that the Dept may control the representative group's by carrot and stick, it's all covered under the right of inspection.

To get around this we'd need professional people running the farm organisations with no direct hand in the industry, but this could could cause as many problems as it would solve.

If they get soil samples of all peat based grassland for €16 a ton of lime, might be great value, while keeping an eye on fert use also.

After all said I think it's very good idea.

I suspected that may have been the idea, they'll get the info one way or another.

I doubt there would be any issue spreading less than planned

Spread away - once you've applied you can spread away and claim for it later in the year when the system is up and running.

Not sure which are the best / most accurate, however have seen a varience between the results from different labs

100% - everyone will probably only get paid for 10 ton this year

Don't think so

a lot of schemes are over subscribed but are never actually fully drawn down by the farmer. If I was a betting man I’d wager anyone who applies for the grant will get the full amount