Up to €1,000 each for farmers to grow silage amid grain shortage
With the cost of silage likely to rise by up to 30% this year because of the war in Ukraine and the wider cost-of-living crisis, farming groups have been demanding urgent action.
Farmers are to be given up to €1,000 each to help them increase silage output as part of a €55 million scheme to offset the grain shortage caused by the war in Ukraine.
The Cabinet is today set to approve a major new silage scheme, the learned. With the cost of silage likely to rise by up to 30% this year because of the war and the wider cost-of-living crisis, farming groups have been demanding urgent action.
