Single Payment entitlements major unresolved issue

YET more winners and losers are about to emerge from the Single Farm Payment scheme, even before it reaches its first birthday.

Now, how to allocate Single Payment entitlements from the National Reserve of these entitlements is the latest potentially divisive and inequitable issue among farmers, thrown up by the CAP reform.

For the Minister and her officials in the Department of Agriculture making the allocations, they are damned whichever way they turn on this one