The Eco Scheme is part of the new CAP 2023-2027 and will make up a significant part of farmers payments this year and on this week’s Tillage Edge podcast, Shay Phelan, a Tillage Specialist in Teagasc, outlines the eight measures which farmers can choose from in 2023.

Shay explains there are about three Eco Scheme measures which are particularly suitable for tillage farmers.  

He says the Space for Nature measures are similar to the EFA of old and calculated in a similar way .  

Most farmers should be able to count this as one option (at 7%) but this may fulfil the entire Eco Scheme requirements if it makes up 10% of the area on a farm.  

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