Fighting for EU farm funding

THE main question on farmers’ lips during the European election canvass was, “What will happen the single farm payment after 2013?”

If candidates were truthful, they could have held out little encouragement of farmers retaining their full payments — especially if they are getting more than average per hectare.

MEPs with the interests of Irish farmers at heart will have to get straight down to intensive work to counter factors which endanger the €1.3 billion single farm payment (SFP) which has been supporting agriculture here since 2005.