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Flat Fuel Support Fails Farmers | Cork News
Farmers are frustrated as a new fuel support scheme fails to meet their needs, with critics in Cork slamming its flat-rate, year-round calculation that ignores peak farming months. From March to July, when silage and slurry spreading demand massive fuel use, farmers get just five-twelfths of the support — while the ICMSA West Cork branch argues it should be eight-twelfths. DJ Keohane, a farmer himself, calls the average payout of 600 euros a “sprinkle of rain in a drought,” easily swallowed by rising costs. He urges a redesign to ensure the 58 million euro fund stays within farming and…
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