Ireland
Start here
Farm payment dates 2026: when every scheme pays
When every Irish farm payment lands in 2026: BISS and CRISS started 22 October, ANC and Eco-scheme balances early December, ACRES by end-November.
Money for farm families: every scheme
Farm Assist, BISS, young farmer supports, PRSI for farm spouses, tax reliefs, forestry and college grants, in one place.
Farm grant calculator (TAMS)
Every TAMS 3 scheme from 40% to 70%, young and women farmer rates, and the separate solar and slurry ceilings.
Young farmer supports
About €150 a hectare on up to 50 ha for 5 years if you're under 40 with a Level 6 qualification, plus the rest.
Direct payments
BISS 2026
The main EU income support, paid per eligible hectare. Up to €66,000 a year. An advance may be paid in October.
CRISS
An extra payment on every active farmer's first 30 hectares, estimated at €40–€43 a hectare.
Eco-scheme
About €60–€65 a hectare a year for two of eight green practices, opted into on your BISS.
Areas of Natural Constraint (ANC): payments for hard-to-farm land
The ANC scheme pays farmers with land in a designated Area of Natural Constraint up to €148 a hectare for Category 1 land, with island farms paid up to €250 a hectare.
Sheep Improvement Scheme
€12 per breeding ewe a year for two flock welfare actions, like lameness control or scanning.
Beef Welfare Scheme 2026
Up to €35 per calf for meal feeding, plus €15 for vaccination and €25 for testing, on up to 45 calves. Closes 23 September.
SCEP
€225 a hectare for the first 15 ha and €180 after, for suckler farmers meeting the five programme actions.
Dairy beef calf schemes: €20 a calf
Two Irish schemes pay €20 per dairy-beef calf, up to 50 calves: the Dairy Beef Welfare Scheme for using 3-star Dairy Beef Index sires, and the National Dairy Beef…
Protein Aid Scheme
A per-hectare payment for beans, peas, lupins and soya, half-rate for mixes. Claimed on BISS.
Tillage Sustainability Support Payment
Up to €110 a hectare on cereals or oilseed rape in 2026, tapering to €50 on the largest areas.
Fuel Income Support Scheme
An anticipated 20c a litre on green diesel for farmers, contractors and fishers, covering March to July 2026.
Fertiliser Exceptional Aid Scheme: do you need to apply?
The Fertiliser Exceptional Aid Scheme pays €40 a tonne on fertiliser bought in 2024/25.
National Sheep Welfare Scheme: up to €13 a ewe
The National Sheep Welfare Scheme pays up to €13 a ewe for three welfare actions.
Transferring, leasing or inheriting BISS entitlements
How to transfer, lease or inherit BISS payment entitlements: the online application, the forms, the 15 May deadline and what happens after a death.
Environment and nature schemes
ACRES
Up to €7,311 a year in ACRES General or €10,500 in Co-operation, for farming that protects nature.
Organic Farming Scheme
Per hectare rates plus €2,000 in year one. Closed to new applicants for now.
Breeding Waders EIP: paid habitat work for farmers
The €25 million Breeding Waders EIP pays farmers in Wader Action Zones for habitat work for curlew, lapwing and other ground-nesting birds, through land management…
Farming for Water EIP: what it pays for and how to join
Farming for Water EIP pays for over 40 water quality measures, including catch crops at up to €229 a hectare.
Investment grants
TAMS 3: every scheme and rate
TAMS is nine schemes, not one, and the rate swings from 40% to 70%. All the rates and ceilings in one place.
TAMS solar grant: 60% towards solar panels on your farm
The TAMS 3 Solar Capital Investment Scheme pays 60% towards farm solar panels and batteries, with its own €90,000 ceiling.
Young Farmers Capital Investment Scheme: the 60% TAMS rate
TAMS 3 YFCIS pays young farmers 60% on approved farm buildings and equipment, on up to €90,000 (€160,000 for two young partners).
Horticulture and beekeeping grants for 2027: up to 40% of the cost
The 2027 horticulture investment scheme grants up to 40% (50% for young farmers and organic growers), beekeepers included.
Traditional Farm Buildings Grant: up to €30,000 for old farm buildings
The Heritage Council's Traditional Farm Buildings Grant Scheme pays €4,000 to €30,000, up to 75% of the cost, to conserve traditional farm buildings and structures.
LEADER grants: rural funding decided by your Local Action Group
LEADER grants can pay up to 75% of a rural project, up to €200,000 (or €500,000 for some community projects).
Forestry
Afforestation Scheme
A planting grant per hectare, then 20 years of premiums for farmers. You don't have to be a farmer.
Native Tree Area Scheme
Small native woods with no licence: €2,206 a hectare a year for 10 years. Old premiums must be claimed by 31 December.
Forestry grants for forests you already own
The grants for forests you already own in Ireland: the Forest Road Scheme (€66 a metre), the Woodland Improvement Scheme (€1,200 a hectare), and the Ash Dieback…
Woodlands tax exemption
Forestry profits in Ireland are free of income and corporation tax. PRSI and USC still apply.
Animal health
TB compensation and supports for farmers
What a TB breakdown pays in Ireland: On Farm Market Valuation up to €5,500 a pedigree cow, the Income Supplement, the Depopulation Grant, and the Hardship Grant of up…
TASAH: the vet visits the Department pays for, and the BVD supports
TASAH funds vet consults on parasites, biosecurity, udder health and BVD.
Farm tax reliefs
Stock relief
Deduct 25% of the rise in stock value, 50% in a farm partnership, 100% for young trained farmers. To end-2027.
Agricultural Relief
90% off the taxable value of a gifted or inherited farm, if you pass the 80% asset and active farmer tests.
Farm stamp duty reliefs
Young Trained Farmer relief under 35, consanguinity relief between relatives, and relief on 6–35 year leases.
Farm Restructuring Relief
No CGT when you swap or sell-and-buy land to consolidate your farm within 24 months. Teagasc cert; to 2029.
CGT Retirement Relief
From 55, pass a farm or business to a child CGT-free up to €10m (€3m at 70+), or €750,000 to others.
Farm income averaging
Pay tax on 5 years' average profit, with the option to step out for a single bad year.
Leasing farm land relief
Lease farmland 5+ years and €18,000 to €40,000 a year of the rent is tax-free. Not to close relatives.
VAT refund on farm buildings
Unregistered farmers can reclaim VAT paid on farm buildings through Revenue eRepayments.
The farmers' flat-rate addition: what it is and what it pays
Farmers not registered for VAT add the flat-rate addition when selling to VAT-registered buyers.
Accelerated capital allowances for farm safety equipment and slurry storage
Farm safety equipment and slurry storage can be written off at 50% a year over two years, not seven or eight.
Handing on the farm
Handing on the farm
€5,000 a year tax credit for up to 5 years, 90% Agricultural Relief, 1% stamp duty, and a grant of up to €1,500 for advice.
Succession Planning Advice Grant: half your advice costs back, up to €1,500
The Succession Planning Advice Grant pays 50% of farm succession advice costs, up to €1,500, for farmers aged 60 and over.
Share farming or a registered farm partnership: which is which?
Share farming keeps two separate farm businesses on one farm; a registered farm partnership makes one.
The Green Cert: how to get it, what it costs, and what it unlocks
The Green Cert is the farming qualification behind young trained farmer reliefs.
Income support, training and family
Farm Assist 2026
Up to €254 (€264 from January 2027) a week for low-income farmers aged 18 to 66. Only 70% of farm income counts, after child disregards.
Paid to attend: the ACRES training payment and the KT payment
ACRES farmers get €156 for each training course they attend.
Teagasc Maintenance Grant
Living-cost grant for Teagasc courses. Farm income averaged over 3 years. Closes 30 September.
Fishing and the coast
Fisher, seafarer and naval tax credits
Three reliefs for people who work at sea — €1,270, €6,350 or €1,500 — and you can only claim one in a year.
Small-Scale Coastal Fishers Scheme: 80% of the cost, up to €30,000
BIM's Small-Scale Coastal Fishers Scheme pays 80% of eligible onboard and onshore investment for vessels under 12 metres that do not use towed gear, capped at €30,000…
FLAG Coastal Communities Development Scheme
BIM's FLAG scheme funds fishers, coastal businesses and community groups within 10km of the coast: a €15m fund to 2029, seven regional groups, grant rates set…
BIM Young Fisher Scheme: 40% towards your first fishing boat
BIM's Young Fisher Scheme pays 40% of the cost of your first fishing vessel, capped at €250,000.
BIM Sustainable Fisheries Scheme: 50% towards onboard upgrades
BIM's Sustainable Fisheries Scheme pays 50% towards onboard upgrades on larger fishing vessels, up to €125,000 this call.
Northern Ireland
Farm support in Northern Ireland
Farm support schemes in Northern Ireland
DAERA farm support for Northern Ireland farmers in 2026: the Farm Sustainability Payment (at least 3 hectares and payment entitlements), the Farming with Nature…
Sustainable Farming Investment Scheme: up to £25,000 for farm equipment
DAERA's Sustainable Farming Investment Scheme gives Northern Ireland farmers 40% grant aid, up to £25,000, on £3,000 to £62,500 of listed equipment and technology,…
Woodland grants in Northern Ireland
DAERA's two woodland creation grants: the Forest Expansion Scheme (up to 100% of costs, 3 hectares or more) and the Small Woodland Grant Scheme (£2,925 a hectare,…
England
Start here
Farming grants in England: what's open now
Every Defra, Rural Payments Agency and Forestry Commission scheme for farmers in England: what is open now (vet health reviews, Farming in Protected Landscapes,…
Delinked payments: what replaced BPS in England
Delinked payments replaced the Basic Payment Scheme in England in 2024 and will be paid each year until 2027.
Schemes that pay for land management
Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI)
The Sustainable Farming Incentive pays farmers in England to take up or keep sustainable farming practices.
Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier (CSHT)
Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier pays farmers and land managers in England to protect, restore or enhance the environment.
Farming in Protected Landscapes (FiPL)
Farmers and land managers in a National Park, a National Landscape (once called an AONB) or the Broads in England can apply for Farming in Protected Landscapes funding.
Grants for equipment, water and trees
Farming Equipment and Technology Fund (FETF)
The Farming Equipment and Technology Fund gives farmers, growers, foresters and contractors in England grants of £1,000 to £25,000 per theme for productivity, slurry…
Water Management Grant: on-farm reservoirs
Defra is reopening the Water Management Grant with up to £15 million to help farmers build on-farm reservoirs for crop irrigation.
Woodland creation grants in England
The England Woodland Creation Grant pays up to £10,200 a hectare to plant new woodland of at least 1 hectare, plus up to £12,700 a hectare more for wider benefits.
Funding for a vet health and welfare review (England)
Farmers in England who keep cattle, sheep or pigs can get funding for a vet to carry out an animal health and welfare review and a disease follow-up, worth £258 to…
Not sure which apply to your farm?
The free check covers farm schemes, family payments and tax credits together. No sign-up.
Check what you could claim →