Important not to create a division

Having read a front page report in another farming paper concerning what was described “as back tracking” by Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney in relation to reform of the single farm payment system, I was both disheartened and confused.

Apparently, the IFA think the minister is not committed enough to protecting recipients of the highest value entitlements, in any reshuffle of the CAP.

It appears to me that by publicly focusing on protecting those with higher payments, the IFA have created the impression that the only issue worthy of debate in the revamp of the CAP is the maintenance of high payments to those already receiving them.