Angry tillage farmers demand TAMS grants

IFA President Eddie Downey has urged Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney to include infrastructure and technology for the arable crop sector in the TAMS farm modernisation grants as soon as possible.

This was after angry tillage farmers accused the IFA leadership of having “milk on the brain”, and linked this to no TAMS grant aid being allocated for tillage, with all €395m concentrated instead on the dairy and livestock sectors.

At a recent Munster IFA grain growers’ meeting at Corrin Mart, Fermoy, attended by the President, Eddie Downey, and Grain Chairman, Liam Dunne, the exclusion of tillage (except for organic production) from the €120m of TAMS grants for young farmers was emphasised by unhappy farmers.