Almost 4,000 farmers miss out on chance to stay in GLAS scheme

On an average farm with mixed types of land, a farmer can get up to €5,000 per year in the GLAS scheme

Glas offers a range of payments for environmental actions such as the protection of watercourses.

Nearly 4,000 GLAS participants have missed out on the chance to stay in the Green Low-Carbon Agri-Environment Scheme for another year.

Funding was provided in the Budget last October to maintain all of the main farm schemes on a transitional basis until the new CAP starts in 2023.