Advance payments under the Areas of Natural Constraints scheme accounted for €179 million of the week's total from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, reaching more than 85,000 farmers.
The Department of Agriculture wants to share its solar grant payment records with the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland so that no farm installation is funded under both schemes; a public consultation runs until October 14.
The scheme pays €35 a calf for pre- and post-weaning meal feeding and this year adds an option to vaccinate against the current bluetongue strain; Teagasc advises working back 43 days from the planned sale date.
The National Pig Association's package, requested by minister Stephen Morgan in July, seeks a Scottish-style price top-up for producers forced onto the spot market, exit aid for those closing units, private storage aid and slaughter incentives for up to 12,000 uncontracted pigs a week from October,
Basic Payment Scheme and Greening money has reached most Scottish farmers and crofters since the window opened on 1 September, the agriculture minister says; recipients of the £21.4 million Future Farming Investment Scheme must file their evidence by 30 September to be paid.
Premier Peter Malinauskas's package puts $100 million into loans of up to $250,000 for small growers and $500,000 for larger ones, with no repayments for two years and 7.2% interest after that, plus $2 million for disposing of chemically treated vine posts and a two-year extension of the Global Wine
Farmers can elect and enrol in the Agriculture Risk Coverage and Price Loss Coverage programmes for 2026 from 16 September to 11 December, after USDA's first base-acre expansion in 20 years added more than 30 million acres.
Window 2 of SFI26 opens on 22 September with £230 million and closes when the money runs out; analysis by Soil Benchmark puts average agreements near £15,000 after Defra cut rates and dropped the management payment, leaving up to two-thirds of would-be applicants without funding.
Demand for the farm modernisation grants has forced ranking and selection on recent tranches; 69,593 applications were lodged across the first twelve, and tranche 14 is open until December 4.
The cabinet committee on government purchase has cleared the fifth lot of bulk granular urea from SABIC Agri-Nutrients under a government-to-government contract, at $391.66 a tonne.
State contracts with Russia and Morocco and private-sector imports totalling close to a million tonnes of phosphate and potash fertiliser were recommended for approval on Wednesday.
Enrolment for the 2026 crop year runs from 16 September to 11 December after the largest expansion of the US farm safety net in two decades; new base acres were trimmed 3.69% because requests exceeded the 30-million-acre cap.
A call for evidence on on-farm capital investments runs to October 30, with the minister saying TAMS 3 has drawn three times the applications of its predecessor and paid out more than €190 million since June 2024.
