IFA allays CAP funding fear

IFA has played down fears of farmers being weaned off Brussels funding and left depending on national finances.

The National Farmer's Union in the UK has warned that last month's EU budget deal ushered in renationalising of the Common Agricultural Policy, but their counterparts in Dublin see no such threat.

NFU president Tim Bennett told the Oxford Farming Conference last week that 8% of the Single Payment may have to be diverted to direct payments for farmers in Romania and Bulgaria.