Fodder support scheme ruled out for this year

The minister said the €100m plus paid in the last two years to help farmers make and conserve fodder achieved its aim of building up stocks on farms, and thus avoided a 2024 repeat of the national shortages seen in 2018 and 2013.

No repeat is planned by the Government of the schemes that paid €1,000 per farm in 2022 and 2023, to help farmers make extra fodder.

The scheme has been dropped from plans for this year, because there has been a significant drop in fertiliser prices.