Government's €56 million Fodder Support Scheme to open 'within days'
03/05/22 - Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue speaks to the media ahead of a Government cabinet meeting at Dublin Castle on Tuesday evening. Photo: Damien Storan. 03/05/22 - Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue speaks to the media ahead of a Government cabinet meeting at Dublin Castle on Tuesday evening. Photo: Damien Storan.
The Government's €56 million Fodder Support Scheme to incentivise drystock farmers to grow more fodder is set to open for applications within the next few days.
The scheme aims to incentivise farmers to produce more silage and hay to avoid animal welfare issues this winter and next spring. It comes as recent survey results by Teagasc show that half of all drystock farmers have spread no chemical Nitrogen fertiliser at all on their silage ground this year.
