Q&A: GLAS is only for land in your 2014 SPS application

Information on the new GLAS agri-environmental scheme will be available at the Department of Agriculture’s meetings on CAP reform implementation, which are continuing around the country.

Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney has reminded farmers that the meetings offer them an important opportunity to inform themselves on GLAS and on how the key elements of the new CAP reform arrangements will operate, including the new Basic Payment Scheme, National Reserve, and Greening.

The meetings are at 8pm, continuing tonight (Thursday) at the Dundrum House Hotel, Dundrum, Co Tipperary; Friday night, March 20 at the South Court Hotel, Raheen Roundabout, Limerick; Monday, March 23 at the Silver Springs Hotel, Tivoli, Cork; Tuesday, March 24 at the Killarney Convention Centre (Gleneagle Hotel), Muckross Road; Wednesday, March 25 at the Connemara Coast Hotel, Furbo, Galway; Thursday, March 26 at the Mayo Convention Centre, Old Westport Road, Castlebar; Monday, March 30 at the Kilmore Hotel, Dublin Road, Cavan; and Tuesday, March 31 at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Rosses Point Road, Sligo.