Only two weeks left to ensure land is eligible for payments
With such a diverse landscape, arguments are inevitable over which Irish acres are eligible for €1.2bn of annual EU farmer payments since 2005.
According to the Department of Agriculture, there are no issues with most of the land declared by farmers in Ireland. But questions arise in the case of some marginal land where, in some instances, very little maintenance is carried out by the payment applicants farming the land.
