€100/ha payment is a sticking plaster when tillage sector needs surgery
‘Weather payment’ is welcome but nowhere near enough as farmers struggle and nation’s cropped area plummets
Oats being planted - but only very small pockets of spring crops have been established. Photo: Roger Jones
By mid-April no more than a few corners would normally remain to be sown in the ‘Banana Belt’ around Athy, but for far this year only very small pockets of spring crops have been established.
Some winter crops are fine but many are marginal.
