Forgotten farmer scheme

Forgotten farmer
"Forgotten farmer is a term used to describe youngfarmers who lost out following the removal of youngfarmer supports (installation aid) due to cuts in public expenditure during the last recession.
They were then unable to qualify for young farmersupports introduced under CAP 2015, because, inmany cases, they had been farming for five years ormore."

Department of Agriculture analysis shows that approximately 3,500 farmers would meet the basic definition of a forgotten farmer.

No mention of payment rate as he is only hoping to get it in the 2025 budget. There is not a hope that any rate would be mentioned yet as it depends on what pot they get.

when did you start farming with a herd number?

I think I am a forgotten farmer did green cert in 06/07 have herd number before idid green cert was supposed to get 15k instillation **** you brendan smith 🤬 . Ifa & Macra didn’t make much noise at the time either

How were you paying Tax on farm income since 2012 if the herd number was not in your name?

In any case you only started farming last year “officially” by the looks of it if that’s when you got herd number. Assume you are 37 based on user name so you should be able to get the young farmers scheme etc at the moment and apply to national reserve if needed etc.

if you are in the young farmers scheme now then if you had gotten the aid back in the day …..you wouldn’t be in the young farmers scheme now I think. You didn’t miss out on anything if that’s the case.

“installation aid” was the name of the young farmers scheme of that time. You missed out on nothing.

If you had gotten the “installation aid” then you wouldn’t be in the young scheme now I think.

I was on my honeymoon when installation aid and early retirement for my dad was pulled …huge blow at the time …I’ll be following this with interest

My understanding of it is if you got any payment at all from either the original installation aid or the young farmer scheme then you don’t qualify as a forgotten farmer.

The forgotten farmers were the ones that fell between those 2 stools. They missed out on the installation and then were either too old or too long farming to qualify for the young farmer scheme when that started.

There are about 3,500 farmers in the country that fall into this category.

@morphy87 if you’ve received any payment from the young farmer scheme then you are not a forgotten farmer.