EU direct payments and food security: Drop out or endure?
Published Mar 21, 2022
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Have you already calculated three times whether you will still apply for EU direct payments in the future? For 2022, you left the area application in mid-May behind you. For 2023, a premium-optimized approach probably counts for even more than agronomic skills. But nothing is certain since the Ukraine war. That is why a turning point is also necessary for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The first politicians are already calling for the plans for the controversial set-aside to be postponed for the time being. The impending gaps in grain alone due to the raid are already leading to panic buying. At the same time, the EU regulations will grow into bureaucratic monsters from 2023 onwards. And the skyrocketing prices for energy, fertilizer and fodder combined with higher producer prices make it even more difficult to weigh up the EU application. Completely rethink compulsory decommissioning without greening The so-called conditionality – the word alone is a deterrent, who wants ...
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