The farming community has today welcomed confirmation that all 46,000 applicants to the ACRES scheme will receive payments this year.
The announcement was made yesterday by Minister Charlie McConalogue following a huge interest from farmers across the country which will now see farmers receive an average payment of €7,000.
Initially, only 30,000 applicants were to be accepted, but many in the community questioned how the department can decide who would receive payments and who wouldn't.
Darren Carty is the Sheep and Schemes editor with the Irish Farmers Journal.
He has been telling Midwest Radio's Alannah Nolan more about what this may mean for the second tranche of applications that may come through this year...
