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Against a background of hardship caused by the summer floods and animal disease outbreaks, David Fursdon, President of the CLA, Peter Kendall, President of the NFU, and Reg Hayden, Chairman of the TFA met Jeff Rooker today (Wednesday 17 October) to repeat strongly their request for an 80% part payment of the Single Farm Payment in December.
They were extremely disappointed to hear that there were no plans to do this. Jeff Rooker re-iterated that the Rural Payment Agency's target was to make full payments and to have completed 75% of the total by the end of March. He said he could not and would not go further than to say that more farmers would be paid more money, earlier, than in 2007.
CLA president, David Fursdon said: "While we recognize that the RPA and Defra have made some progress, our members will be hugely frustrated to learn that payments to all farmers cannot be made earlier given the enormous cash flow problems that many sectors are now facing."
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The Defra CAP reform page, with links to the relevant Defra documents, in particular their list of CAP Reform Q&As (questions & answers). Details of the CAP reform decision in Wales, from the Wales Countryside Department
Click here to visit the Rural Payments Agency website; and then click on 'Single Payment Scheme' and 'CAP reform policy' for more information.
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Dr. Derrick Wilkinson – Senior Economist
Responsible for CAP reform, international trade policy, economic fortunes of agriculture, income stabilisation, food security, farm structural change, EU level Rural Development policy, values and payments for environmental services, economics of Water Framework Directive, and economic aspects of climate change.
Phone: 020 7460 7958
FAX: 020 7235 4696
Email derrick.wilkinson@cla.org.uk
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