A 30,000-signature petition is part of a campaign by the Farm Family Rights Group (FFRG) for a better CAP out-come, including a €20,000, ‘per active farmer’ minimum annual target, made up of GLAS, plus basic and greening farm payments.

Smaller-scale family farmers have backed the front-loaded option for the single farm payment in the Irish implementation in 2015 of the CAP reform.

Active, productive farmers must be prioritised for CAP payments, demands IFA in its submission to the Department of Agriculture’s CAP reform consultation.