muckymanor
Well-Known Member
I'm surprised that there's no thread on this, maybe there is and I have missed it. It should be a hot topic, but there's so much else going on around us that it has been a little overshadowed. We should not let it be overshadowed. It's important that we have a say in it.
Looking at some of the proposals.
I'm in favour of the way that it's going, but I know that not everybody will be.
Cuts for farmers with entitlements valued above €260. I have got significantly less than this as do other members of my family, so hopefully we won't get less, and maybe we will gain.
Environmental aspects. I think that a cap payment which is weighted towards environmental actions will benefit us also.
I have one idea that I would like to see in CAP payments. That is, a system which will be encouraging to farmers who we would currently describe as armchair farmers as well as retired farmers who are staying in the game to claim their sfp to put their land into forestry. It goes against every bone in my body, but the reality is that we need to take big tracts of land out of animal production and put it into something else such as forestry. If we don't do this, then there isn't going to be much of a future for suckler or beef farmers. We need a system which will phase these farmers out over the next number of years. This will also help to meet tree planting targets for climate action.
Mine's a very small few points on CAP. What's your views on CAP??
Looking at some of the proposals.
I'm in favour of the way that it's going, but I know that not everybody will be.
Cuts for farmers with entitlements valued above €260. I have got significantly less than this as do other members of my family, so hopefully we won't get less, and maybe we will gain.
Environmental aspects. I think that a cap payment which is weighted towards environmental actions will benefit us also.
I have one idea that I would like to see in CAP payments. That is, a system which will be encouraging to farmers who we would currently describe as armchair farmers as well as retired farmers who are staying in the game to claim their sfp to put their land into forestry. It goes against every bone in my body, but the reality is that we need to take big tracts of land out of animal production and put it into something else such as forestry. If we don't do this, then there isn't going to be much of a future for suckler or beef farmers. We need a system which will phase these farmers out over the next number of years. This will also help to meet tree planting targets for climate action.
Mine's a very small few points on CAP. What's your views on CAP??