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Provincial breakdown of the payments

Curious Geroge · 2009-02-23 21:28:16

Anyone see the article in the journal this week where there is a provincial breakdown of the payments.. http://www.farmersjournal.ie/2009/0221/farmbusiness/business/payments.shtml It shows the west was far behind on the payments with almost 50% less avg than the east of the country and pretty large numbers with the other…

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Anyone see the article in the journal this week where there is a provincial breakdown of the payments..

http://www.farmersjournal.ie/2009/0221/farmbusiness/business/payments.shtml

It shows the west was far behind on the payments with almost 50% less avg than the east of the country and pretty large numbers with the other provincies.. Although there are more farmers claiming in the west, can anyone explain how there is such a difference with the payments, are the avg farms 50% smaller in the west..

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#2 24-02-2009 10:45am

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Curious Geroge wrote: »

are the avg farms 50% smaller in the west..

To give you a simple answer, Yes.

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#3 24-02-2009 10:50am

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They are on average far smaller than 50% the size of the farms in the east- the reason the payments aren't even smaller is the nature of the entitlements they were drawing during the reference periods.

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