Robin Talbot: Last year was a perfect storm in terms of margin. Will 2024 be a washout?
‘It looks like we will have to cover ourselves for at least a 150-day winter in this part of the country’. Photo: Alf Harvey
In the process of compiling our 2023 farm accounts, our accountant contacted us to ask if we had had a major penalty on our EU income supports.
We told him that we had: it’s called “convergence”. We had high-value entitlements. These have now been significantly reduced.
