Bid to aid cash flow as floods add to farm crisis
Announcing the bringing forward of payments, Agriculture Minister Brendan Smith said he was very conscious of farmers’ income difficulties, and wanted to improve their cash flow by bringing forward almost €85m of payments.
The decision goes some way to meeting IFA President Padraig Walshe’s request that outstanding Single Farm Payment, REPS and Disadvantaged Areas payments be brought forward to help the hard-pressed farming sector.
