Grant bid to pay for new rules
Last updated 05:41, Friday, 03 October 2008
THE Tenant Farmers Association (TFA) is lobbying the Government for grant aid to help farmers pay for new Nitrate Vulnerable Zone regulations.
Many Cumbrian farmers will have to spend thousands of pounds on new slurry tanks when the new zones come into force.
TFA vice chairman Stephen Wyrill said: “It is simply not acceptable that farmers in Scotland and Northern Ireland are to be given grant aid towards new slurry storage capacity when English farmers will be required to meet the cost fully themselves.
“Dairy farmers will be particularly badly hit by these new regulations.”
All firms producing dairy costings are forecasting a major downturn in the fortunes of dairy farmers over the next couple of years partly because of the extra costs.
