MEAT CAP REFORMS WILL ALLOW SUCCESSFUL LIVESTOCK PRODUCERS TO GROW, SAY EXPERTS
June 1st, 2013
SUCCESSFUL meat producers will be breathing a sigh of a relief that the newly agreed reform of the European Union’s (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) will not punish them as severely as they feared.A key thread of the reform was decoupling subsidies from production, so livestock farmers got a subsidy linked to farm hectares. The idea was that efficient farmers would thrive and be rewarded for supplying the market, rather than being encouraged to rely in subsidies that flowed if they had a lot of output but could not sell it.But as Irish Cattle and Sheep ...
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