New climate scheme criticised for providing ‘limited opportunities’ to dairy farmers
Farm bodies say very few dairy farmers will get the maximum payment from the scheme. Photo: Clive Wasson
Claire Mc Cormack
Commercial family farms will be excluded from the Government’s new €1.5bn Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme (Acres) due to open for 50,000 applications later this year, farm leaders have warned.
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