IFA welcomes €26m tillage fund

Targeted funding of €26m for tillage farmers under the TAMS II programme will help them expand in growing export-focused grain sectors, said IFA president Joe Healy.
IFA welcomes €26m tillage fund

He said: “This will support the growth of Ireland’s rapidly expanding dairy, whiskey and gluten-free oats export orientated businesses. More farm-to-farm trade coupled with the use of technology will also allow grain farmers reduce agriculture’s carbon and environmental footprint.”

Minister for Agriculture, Michael Creed, said the modernisation scheme will fund investment in minimum disturbance tillage equipment, sprayers, rain water harvesting, grain storage and grain dryers.

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