SCEP is an agricultural scheme which aims to provide support to beef farmers to improve the environmental sustainability of the national beef herd. Herd owners will be presented with the best 3 years of 2016-2021 and will receive the average of these 3 years as a reference number. This reference number will be divided by 1.5 to give a maximum payable area (MPA). For example, a farmer with a reference number of 10 will have an MPA of 6.66 hectares
Payment of €225 for the first 15 hectares and €180 for the remaining hectares up to the maximum payable area will be made providing all criteria has been met.
Applicants have until October 16th 2023 to become a SBLAS-(Bord Bia) member and attend the SCEP training course and an animal handling course by 15th November 2024.
Deadline for applications 22nd May 2023
More information here