ACRES is Ireland’s new agri-environment climate scheme under Ireland’s CAP Strategic Plan. This new €1.5 billion flagship agri-environment scheme is a farmer-friendly scheme to help address biodiversity decline while delivering an income support for up to 50,000 farm families in Ireland.
The intake into ACRES (‘the Scheme’) will be phased, with at least two tranches.
All valid applications submitted for Tranche 1 were accepted into the Scheme, with 1 January 2023 being the commencement date of the contracts.
The next step is that the successful applicants will receive an approval letter initially, with a more detailed summary approval to follow. The approval summary, which will show where actions have been mapped on the participant’s farm, will be posted to participants with a copy of the Farmland Plant Identification Guide, a booklet developed by the department to help farmers in the scoring process.
It is proposed that the ACRES system will open in the third quarter of 2023 for applications for Tranche 2 of the Scheme. Please see video below by ACA ACRES Specialist Owen O’DRiscoll, detailing various aspects of ACRES.
