Most farmers unaffected by proposed CAP reforms

THE cheque-in-the-post would be unchanged for nearly half of Ireland’s farmers, if the CAP Reform proposals were accepted.

Ireland has 55,200 farmers getting less than €5,000 per year from Brussels.

This is the threshold at which modulation is proposed the mechanism by which Brussels would claw back payments from farmers, and divert them to pay for other elements of CAP Reform.