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<blockquote data-quote="mar" data-source="post: 7870174" data-attributes="member: 9032"><p>That is probably part of it</p><p>The biggest problem is how do you define what a farmer is and what an armchair farmer is.</p><p>There is a guy beside me that is an armchair farmer but on paper is a farmer, he owns about 20 acres or 8 hectares (most farms in the west of Ireland are small)</p><p>Two local farmers take two cuts of it every year, one of them grazes lambs on the bit he cuts, the other just takes two cuts, one cut in mid July and the second in October.</p><p>As this is a disadvantaged area, high rainfall, poor quality land, he qualifies for ANC payment (Areas of Natural Constraint) To claim the payment of 148 euro a Hectare you need to have at least 0.15 livestock units per hectare, the only stock he has is two donkeys and he buys a couple of cattle from one of the guys that cuts the silage, he buys them of him and sells them back again after a few months but on paper only.</p><p>He collects the ANC money, the money from selling the silage, and I think he is in an environmental scheme as well, he is a farmer but not an active farmer.</p><p>The department knows it's going on but it is very hard to come up with rules that will stop it happening</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.farmersjournal.ie/10-500-farmers-must-prove-they-are-farming-to-keep-cap-payments-662930[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mar, post: 7870174, member: 9032"] That is probably part of it The biggest problem is how do you define what a farmer is and what an armchair farmer is. There is a guy beside me that is an armchair farmer but on paper is a farmer, he owns about 20 acres or 8 hectares (most farms in the west of Ireland are small) Two local farmers take two cuts of it every year, one of them grazes lambs on the bit he cuts, the other just takes two cuts, one cut in mid July and the second in October. As this is a disadvantaged area, high rainfall, poor quality land, he qualifies for ANC payment (Areas of Natural Constraint) To claim the payment of 148 euro a Hectare you need to have at least 0.15 livestock units per hectare, the only stock he has is two donkeys and he buys a couple of cattle from one of the guys that cuts the silage, he buys them of him and sells them back again after a few months but on paper only. He collects the ANC money, the money from selling the silage, and I think he is in an environmental scheme as well, he is a farmer but not an active farmer. The department knows it's going on but it is very hard to come up with rules that will stop it happening [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.farmersjournal.ie/10-500-farmers-must-prove-they-are-farming-to-keep-cap-payments-662930[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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