Leased land farmers may lose premia

THE prospect of farmers who have been operating on leased land losing all their EU premia rights within weeks has been raised by IFA.

And farmers who have been successfully fattening heifers or cull cows for the factory could be left with very little entitlement to premia payments, if the proposals in the CAP mid-term review are accepted later this month.

The association has been concentrating on the rights of dairy farmers, and farmers who have been leasing land or participating in the retirement scheme, as they presented their latest “proposals on the proposals”, at country-wide meetings.