@muckymanor admirable sentiments and very similar to my own.
Up to recently I thought that a worth while environmental scheme or schemes would be coming but it's not looking likely I'm afraid.Part of your sfp(25% I think,) is being moved aside and to get it back you will have to carry out measures.
The eu have stated that farmers won't make money from environment schemes.
I attended 2 national Ifa meetings on this in the last week and didn't come away smiling.the new teagasc director gave us a presentation yesterday,no magic solution to make it all go away, improvement in technology hoping to achieve the requirement for reduction,I have my doubts on it being enough though