New era for farming has started with unsupported male cattle
The first male animals without entitlement to EU support on a headage basis were born on farms, as the industry enters a new era.
Animals with a date of birth after May 31, 2004, have become the first males without direct support in more than a decade, bringing to an end the familiar sales yard terms of “clean ears”, “single premium”, etc, which have become part of the farming dialogue in the marts since the early Nineties.
