A positive impact for NI farmers


DAERA recently announced that the rate of advance CAP payments for 2018 would increase from 50% to 70% of claim value.
Summing up its value as the popular GrassCheck bulletins conclude for the year, AgriSearch’s General Manager, Jason Rankin commented: “GrassCheck is AgriSearch’s longest running programme and has been consistently delivering value for our farmers. It is assisting them with their grassland management and helping to inform policy. For example, the information GrassCheck produced led to £4.5M in weather aid in 2002 and £1M in fodder aid in 2013. Now in 2018 data from the project has contributed to CAP payments reaching farmers two months ahead of time.”
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Hide Ad48 dairy, beef and sheep pilot farmers contribute to the work on the project by measuring grass each week in all kinds of weathers. “I’d like to thank our farmers for their support,” continued Jason Rankin. “This certainly was a grass growing year for the record books.”