The groundswell of tillage farmer anger over TAMS 2 grant scheme won’t go away

When the tillage sector was largely ignored in the TAMS 2 grant scheme launches in 2015, it was the last straw for hundreds of crop farmers.

The schemes make grants of up to 60% available for buyers of hundreds of items of equipment on dairy, beef, sheep, pig and poultry farms.

But the glaring omissions were grant aid for tillage farm equipment such as on-farm storage handling and drying or processing facilities for grain,low drift sprayer technology, and state-of-the-art yield mapping technology for precision farming.