Farm Payments 2024

about half what it was last year.

100% agree.

I've come across a few of them too in my time and the rudeness of them when I doubt they have very much education at all and just got lucky getting those jobs years ago and dept. can't get rid of them now 😤

We had a call from the department on Sunday to "finalise" our application. My oh missed the call as she was at mass. Asked her a few odd questions like do we have Livestock and then said all was OK for processing.

EU signaled that change nearly 30 years ago under McSharry due to Beef mountains, Wine lakes etc. With further EU expansion Eastwards the pot was always going to be stretched and there is little appetite among EU countries to further expand farmings 40% share of EU funding. The main industrial farming orgs didn't help the case when crying wolf about "food shortages" at the start of the Ukranian war, only to see the EU grain, poultry markets etc. flooded with excess production from same leading to bailouts for these sectors across many countries via the already stressed CAP budget

Nothing to do with him, no point blaming EU policy on one person. Same idea for a lot of environmental policies get blamed on the greens when it's usually EU policy.

Anyway new election just around the corner so the public can vote the same crowd in again.

He's pretty popular with smaller farmers in the West, plus worked hard on the Mica issue. I'd say the bigger idiots were the ones who voted for a celebrity jockey and washed up RTE Z listers who despite blowing hard on farming issues via their FFG handlers during the election, don't appear to be able to find the Agri Committee room in Brussels based on their (non) attendance records for key meetings…..

Yea, we got away with murder the last ten years, I thought we'd be hit with reductions in 2013 at the last CAP reform. Commisioner Ciolos was pushing to level the payments at the time.

In fairness, I like to give out and I like a good bitch dnd a moan as much as the next man if not more but I'm in a similar boat...

Found them quite helpful over the years…always try to be polite...worked in a couple of customer service type jobs over the years so have something like empathy....

Now dealing with Eir a couple of years back...that tested my patience

ECO showing up as paid in the BISS section of Agfood for me. Payment approval date of 15/10, so hoping it will be in the account in the next few days.

What amazes me is the wasting of money that must have occurred by the 20% of farmers who received 80% of the CAP money. What did they spend it all on if their businesses are in such trouble now. Foolish to expect public money to flow forever.