£26m from EU Dairy Fund to be distributed to British Farmers
Published on Thursday 11 Mar 2010 by All Hubs
Following the consultation on optioins for allocating the UK's share of the EU dairy fund, a flat rate payment will be made to dairy farmers of roughly
0.2 pence per litre of the milk they produced between October 2008 and September 2009.
The overwhelming response from the consultation agreed that the flat rate payment model was the fairest system for distribution of the fund across the UK.
The qualifying threshold for payments will be 50,000 litres, which means that the minimum payment from the fund will be roughly £100. The Rural Payments Agency aims to begin making payments in mid-April, with all payments to be made by the end of June.
Further information is available on the Defra website:
http://www.defra.gov.uk/news/2010/100304b.htm
